This is a list of public art in the county of Shropshire, England. This list applies only to works of public art on permanent display in an outdoor public space. For example, this does not include artworks in museums.
Bridgnorth
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War memorial | Bridgnorth Town Park, Bridgnorth 52°31′53″N 2°25′10″W / 52.531423°N 2.419347°W |
1920, rededicated 1950 | Adrian Jones | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | [1] |
Craven Arms
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Sheep, Rail transport | Craven Arms, Shropshire, UK 52°26′22″N 2°50′07″W / 52.43936°N 2.8352°W |
2005 | Malcolm Robertson | Statue |
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Ironbridge
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War memorial | High Street, Ironbridge 52°37′39″N 2°29′06″W / 52.627599°N 2.485034°W |
1924 | Arthur George Walker | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Lifesize | Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust | Depicts a soldier in a World War I uniform [2][3] | |
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Ironbridge Coracles | Banks of the River Severn near the Museum of the Gorge, Ironbridge 52°37′46″N 2°29′31″W / 52.62939°N 2.49189°W |
2021 | Luke Perry | Sculpture | Steel | Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust | An image of Tommy Rogers, grandfather to the Gorge's last coracle man, Eustace Rogers, who died in 2002. The design was based on a paper-cut image by Ironbridge resident Dave Fieldhouse. The sculpture is intended to be part of the Ironbridge Coracle Trail.[4]
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Oswestry
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Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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The Borderland Farmer | Church Street (Red Square), Oswestry 52°51′29″N 3°03′23″W / 52.858020°N 3.056359°W |
1990 | Ivor Roberts-Jones | Statue | Bronze | Shropshire Council | Bronze statue of a shepherd with a ram, on a dome of rocks.[5] | ||
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Wilfred Owen | Cae Glas Park, Oswestry 52°51′30″N 3°03′27″W / 52.858281°N 3.05755°W |
2018 | Tim Turner[6] | Statue | Bronze | [6] | |||
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Red deer | Cae Glas Park, Oswestry 52°51′30″N 3°03′30″W / 52.858211°N 3.058336°W |
2013 | Statue | Part of the Oswestry Urban Sculpture Adventure Trail[7] | |||||
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Giraffe | Cae Glas Park, Oswestry 52°51′34″N 3°03′28″W / 52.859394°N 3.057861°W |
2013 | Statue | Part of the Oswestry Urban Sculpture Adventure Trail[7] | |||||
Mr Mots, Miner | St Martins, Shropshire[8] | 2018 | George Triggs | Statue | Bronze | [9][8]
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Shrewsbury
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Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Charles Darwin | In front of Shrewsbury Library 52°42′37″N 2°45′03″W / 52.710401°N 2.750787°W |
1897 | Horace Montford | Seated statue | Bronze | 2.6m high approx | Grade II listed | Shropshire Council | Shrewsbury Library building used to house Shrewsbury School, which Darwin attended as a boy.[10][11] |
Charles Darwin | Outside Shrewsbury School 52°42′13″N 2°45′44″W / 52.703550°N 2.762327°W |
2000 | Statue | Bronze | Shrewsbury School | |||||
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The Quantum Leap | Mardol Quay Gardens, Shrewsbury 52°42′34″N 2°45′26″W / 52.709452°N 2.757193°W |
2009 | Pearce & Lal | Sculpture | Stone cast in cement | 12 metres high and 17.5 metres long | Shropshire Council | Unveiled to mark Darwin's bicentenary [12] | |
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Darwin Gate | Mardol Head, Shrewsbury 52°42′29″N 2°45′18″W / 52.707997°N 2.755088°W |
2004 | Mark Renn & Mick Thacker | Sculpture | cast glass, copper, bronze, stainless steel and stone | Shropshire Council | The starting point of the Darwin Trail [13] | ||
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Darwin Window | Darwin Shopping Centre, Pride Hill, Shrewsbury 52°42′32″N 2°45′11″W / 52.708870°N 2.752919°W |
Stained glass window | The Darwin Shopping Centre | It depicts an animal scene in a clear nod to Charles Darwin who was born in Shrewsbury[14]
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The Quarry
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Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Boer War Memorial | St Chad's Terrace, Shrewsbury 52°42′25″N 2°45′33″W / 52.706848°N 2.759039°W |
1902 | Caffin of Regent Street | Statue | Stone | Grade II listed[15] | Shropshire Council | ||
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War Memorial | The Quarry, Shrewsbury 52°42′27″N 2°45′36″W / 52.707382°N 2.760005°W |
1922 | George Hubbard and Son, Allan Wyon | Statue | Granite and bronze | Grade II listed[16] | Shropshire Council | ||
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Copy of the Farnese Hercules | The Quarry, Shrewsbury 52°42′24″N 2°45′49″W / 52.706669°N 2.763520°W |
Early 18th Century | John Nost | Statue | Lead | 1.6m high approx | Grade II listed[17] | Shropshire Council | Originally at Condover Hall, It was moved to the entrance of The Quarry in 1851. It was later moved to its current position in 1881 [18] |
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Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother | Queen Mother Centenary Rose Garden, The Quarry, Shrewsbury 52°42′29″N 2°45′34″W / 52.707931°N 2.759492°W |
2001 | Sculpture | Bronze | Shropshire Council |
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Town Centre
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Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Clive of India | Shrewsbury Square, Shrewsbury 52°42′28″N 2°45′14″W / 52.707785°N 2.754027°W |
1860 | Carlo Marochetti | Statue | Bronze | 2.75m high approx | Grade II listed[19] | Shropshire Council | [20] |
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The Spread Eagle emblem | Barclays, 46 Castle Street, Shrewsbury 52°42′33″N 2°45′07″W / 52.709155°N 2.752039°W |
Sculpture | Barclays | [21] | |||||
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High Cross | Pride Hill junction with St Mary's Street, Shrewsbury 52°42′32″N 2°45′09″W / 52.708941°N 2.752455°W |
1952 | High cross | fine white limestone | 5.5m high overall, cross 1.21m high approx | Shropshire Council | On the site of earlier crosses. Was the site of execution [22] Present cross was erected to commemorate the 400 years of Shrewsbury School in the town in 1952. | ||
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The Lion | The Lion Hotel, Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury 52°42′23″N 2°45′06″W / 52.706434°N 2.751675°W |
1777 | John Nelson | Lion sculpture | Stone | Grade I listed[23] | The Lion Hotel |
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English Bridge Gardens
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Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Viscount Hill | Shrewsbury Sixth Form College - English Bridge Gardens, Shrewsbury 52°42′27″N 2°44′50″W / 52.707628°N 2.747131°W |
1876 | Matthew Noble | Statue | White marble | 2m high approx | Grade II listed[24] | Shropshire Council | Unveiled in English Bridge Gardens in 1907.[25]
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Cherry Orchard
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Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Lord Hill's Column | Column Roundabout, Shrewsbury 52°42′15″N 2°43′54″W / 52.704154°N 2.731780°W |
1816 | Thomas Harrison, Edward Haycock, John Carline, Jnr and Joseph Panzetta | Statue on top of a column | Coade stone and Grinhill sandstone | 5.2m high (statue), 4.57m diameter at pedestal, 68cm thick; 3.2m diameter at capital, 48cm thick (column) | Grade II* listed[26] | Shropshire Council | Monument to Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill[27] |
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Symmetry: memorial to Wilfred Owen | Shrewsbury Abbey 52°42′28″N 2°44′33″W / 52.707877°N 2.742475°W |
1994 | Paul de Monchaux | Sculpture | Granite and sandstone | Commissioned by the Wilfred Owen Association, to mark the centenary of his birth[28] |
Telford
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Trihedral Spire | Naird Roundabout, Telford 52°40′14″N 2°24′54″W / 52.67068°N 2.41502°W |
1984 | Roundabout obelisk | Concrete | 22 metre high | Telford and Wrekin Council | [29]
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Ludlow
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "War Memorials Register: Bridgnorth". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
- ^ "War Memorial". National Recording Project. Public Monument and Sculpture Association. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
- ^ "War Memorials Register: Ironbridge WW1 and WW2". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
- ^ Dominic Robertson (20 April 2021). "Ironbridge coracle men remembered as sculpture unveiled". Shropshire Star. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
- ^ "The Borderland Farmer". www.vanderkrogt.net. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
- ^ a b "Wilfred Owen statue unveiled in Oswestry". BBC. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
- ^ a b "Oswestry Urban Safari Adventure Trail". Retrieved 11 November 2018.
- ^ a b "Hundreds turn out for unveiling of coal miner statue". itv.com. 24 November 2018. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
- ^ Austin, Sue (17 November 2018). "Memorial to miners to be unveiled". The Shropshire Star. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
- ^ "Statue of Charles Darwin (1809-1882)". National Recording Project. Public Monument and Sculpture Association. Archived from the original on 1 September 2012. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
- ^ Historic England. "Statue of Charles Darwin in Front of Library (Grade II) (1246556)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
- ^ "Quantum Leap". www.discoverdarwin.co.uk. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ^ "The DarwIn Shrewsbury Trail". www.originalshrewsbury.co.uk. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
- ^ "Darwin Window". www.waymarking.com. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
- ^ Historic England. "Boer War Memorial (Grade II) (1059006)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
- ^ Historic England. "War Memorial (Grade II) (1270484)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
- ^ Historic England. "Statue of the Farnese Hercules (Grade II) (1270558)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
- ^ "Copy of the Farnese Hercules". National Recording Project. Public Monument and Sculpture Association. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
- ^ Historic England. "Statue of Lord Clive (Grade II) (1254926)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
- ^ "Statue of Robert Clive, First Baron of India (1725-1774)". National Recording Project. Public Monument and Sculpture Association. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
- ^ "Barclays Eagle". Barclays. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
- ^ "High Cross (aka Butter Cross)". National Recording Project. Public Monument and Sculpture Association. Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
- ^ Historic England. "The Lion Hotel (Grade I) (1255164)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
- ^ Historic England. "Statue of Viscount Hill in English Bridge Gardens (Grade II) (1246397)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
- ^ "Statue of Viscount Hill". National Recording Project. Public Monument and Sculpture Association. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
- ^ Historic England. "Lord Hill's Column (Grade II*) (1271374)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
- ^ "Monument to Viscount Rowland Hill (1772-1842)". National Recording Project. Public Monument and Sculpture Association. Archived from the original on 5 April 2017. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
- ^ "Symmetry (Memorial to Wilfred Owen)" Art UK. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ Toby Neal (23 June 2018). "The invisible art which made Telford European champions". Shropshire Star. Retrieved 3 September 2023.