List of public art in the London Borough of Hillingdon

John Alcock and Arthur Brown (1954) by William McMillan in front of the Heathrow Academy which provides vocational and specialist theory courses

This is a list of public art in the London Borough of Hillingdon.

Map of public art in the London Borough of Hillingdon

Eastcote

Main article: Eastcote
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Eastcote War Memorial Memorial Gardens, Field End Road 1921 Louis Frederick Roslyn and Edmund John Shelmerdine Memorial cross — Unveiled 12 June 1921.[1][2]
Coat of arms of Middlesex East façade of Eastcote Library, Field End Road

51°34′50″N 0°24′01″W / 51.5805°N 0.4003°W / 51.5805; -0.4003 (Coat of arms of Middlesex) 		1959 Municipal works team of Middlesex County Council


Harefield

Main article: Harefield
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes

More images 		Harefield War Memorial The Green

51°36′15″N 0°28′49″W / 51.6041°N 0.4803°W / 51.6041; -0.4803 (Harefield War Memorial) 		1921 Frederick Herbert Mansford Obelisk Grade II [3]
Making Space Heart Science Centre, Magdi Yacoub Institute 2004 Antony Gormley Sculpture — [4]
Prometheus
Magdi Yacoub 		Harefield Hospital

51°36′25″N 0°28′58″W / 51.6069°N 0.4828°W / 51.6069; -0.4828 (Prometheus) 		2008 Pavlos Angelos Kougioumtzis[5] Statue — Unveiled 21 November 2008 by Gordon Brown.[6]
Harefield village green main (globe) sign The Green (public green) partly facing the south end of the large hospital site

51°36′11″N 0°29′02″W / 51.603°N 0.484°W / 51.603; -0.484 		2008 Circular (band) sign and finial-style statue — Hare as in the name of the place. Australia and Britain due to the injured treated at the large hospital in World War I.


Harmondsworth

Main article: Harmondsworth
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Royal Canadian Air Force Memorial Harmondsworth Moor

51°29′24″N 0°29′21″W / 51.4901°N 0.4893°W / 51.4901; -0.4893 		1995 Memorial stone with plaque [7]
The Hurdler Forecourt of the Lodge, Harmondsworth Lane 1984 Diana Thomson Sculpture — Commissioned by APC International and inspired by the 1984 Summer Olympics, the sculpture later became the basis for the company's logo.[8]


Heathrow Airport

Main article: Heathrow Airport
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Anglo-French Survey (1784–1790) baseline: the northern of its two commemorative cannons West of where Nene Road meets Northern Perimeter Road, being at one of the places known as "King's Arbour" (a notably large tree).

51°28′47″N 0°27′01″W / 51.47980°N 0.4502°W / 51.47980; -0.4502 		1791 William Mudge Grade II The corresponding south cannon is next to LEH School, Hampton.[9]
Alcock and Brown Newall Road, on north side of the airport

51°28′50″N 0°26′36″W / 51.48053°N 0.4433°W / 51.48053; -0.4433 		1954 William McMillan Sculptural group — [10]
Custom Shed Screen Custom House, Nene Road 1967 Robert Adams Screens — [8]
Speedbird motifs Hatton Cross tube station

51°27′59.83″N 0°25′24″W / 51.4666194°N 0.42333°W / 51.4666194; -0.42333 		1975 After Theyre Lee-Elliott Mosaics — [11][12]
Atlas Outside the Compass Centre, Northern Perimeter Road West 1993 c. 1993 Hylton Stockwell Sculpture — [13]
Moving World (Night & Day) Terminal 5

51°28′24″N 0°29′22″W / 51.47322°N 0.48938°W / 51.47322; -0.48938 		2008 Langlands & Bell Pair of illuminated neon and steel walls — [14]
Animated Crest Terminal 5

51°28′17.71″N 0°29′17.23″W / 51.4715861°N 0.4881194°W / 51.4715861; -0.4881194 		2008 Christopher Pearson — [15]
Oak Seasons Terminal 5

51°28′17.71″N 0°29′17.23″W / 51.4715861°N 0.4881194°W / 51.4715861; -0.4881194 		2008 Christopher Pearson — [15]

More images 		Emirates A380 sculpture At north access to/from Terminals 2 & 3 access tunnel

51°28′50″N 0°27′11″W / 51.48061°N 0.4530°W / 51.48061; -0.4530 		2008 Penwal — [16]
Cloud Terminal 5

51°28′17.71″N 0°29′17.23″W / 51.4715861°N 0.4881194°W / 51.4715861; -0.4881194 		2008 Troika Sculpture — [15]
All the Time in the World Terminal 5

51°28′17.71″N 0°29′17.23″W / 51.4715861°N 0.4881194°W / 51.4715861; -0.4881194 		2008 Troika — [15]
Yan Shu (swan letter) Terminal 5

51°28′17.71″N 0°29′17.23″W / 51.4715861°N 0.4881194°W / 51.4715861; -0.4881194 		2008 UnitedVisualArtists Sculpture — [17]
Sculpture marking the 150th anniversary of the London Underground Ticket hall at Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3 tube station

51°28′16.67″N 0°27′8.64″W / 51.4712972°N 0.4524000°W / 51.4712972; -0.4524000 		2013 Sculpture — [18]
Turkish Airlines Globe Near main access tunnel, on central roundabout (between Terminals 2 & 3)

51°28′19″N 0°27′11″W / 51.47189°N 0.4531°W / 51.47189; -0.4531 		2013 Sculpture — [19]
London Taxi Terminal 2

51°28′10.62″N 0°27′4.87″W / 51.4696167°N 0.4513528°W / 51.4696167; -0.4513528 		2014 Benedict Radcliffe Sculpture — [20]

More images 		Slipstream Terminal 2

51°28′10.8″N 0°26′58.8″W / 51.469667°N 0.449667°W / 51.469667; -0.449667 		2014 Richard Wilson Sculpture — [21]


Hayes

Main article: Hayes, Hillingdon
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Hayes War Memorial Church Road

51°31′04″N 0°25′09″W / 51.51766°N 0.419146°W / 51.51766; -0.419146 		Post-World War II ? Wooden Calvary on raised stone plinth with brick surrounding walls and carved inscriptions — [22]
Skylark Lake Farm Country Park

51°30′42″N 0°25′31″W / 51.51166°N 0.425146°W / 51.51166; -0.425146 		2002 c. 2002 Ben Dearnley Sculpture —
Tiling Underpass at Hayes and Harlington railway station 2003 Lubna Chowdhary — [23]
The Converse Wall of Clash Powerhouse building, Blyth Road

51°30′15.96″N 0°25′34.5″W / 51.5044333°N 0.426250°W / 51.5044333; -0.426250 		2014 Remi Rough and System (Agents of Change) — [24]
Night scene Norman Leddy Memorial Gardens

51°31′14″N 0°25′24″W / 51.52046°N 0.423206°W / 51.52046; -0.423206 		Tom "Carver" Harvey Tree sculpture — [25]
Man looking for his dog Barra Hall Park

51°31′05″N 0°25′24″W / 51.51816°N 0.423416°W / 51.51816; -0.423416 		Tom "Carver" Harvey Tree sculpture — [25]


Art installation

On Sunday 5 August 2012, Jeremy Deller's art installation Sacrilege (an inflatable life-size model of Stonehenge) was installed in Barra Hall Park from 10.30am to 6pm. An estimated 1,400 people visited on the day.[26]

Northwood

Main article: Northwood, London
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes

More images 		Northwood War Memorial Green Lane, near Northwood tube station

51°36′42″N 0°25′30″W / 51.6116°N 0.4250°W / 51.6116; -0.4250 		1921 William Aumonier Jr. F. D. Bedford Memorial cross Grade II Unveiled 13 February 1921.[27]
Green Man and town sign Green Lane 2011 William Lee — Sculptures — [28]


Ruislip

Main article: Ruislip
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes

More images 		Ruislip War Memorial Eastcote Road, opposite St Martin's Church

51°34′39″N 0°25′38″W / 51.5775°N 0.4272°W / 51.5775; -0.4272 		1921? Local craftsmen Memorial cross — [29]

More images 		Polish Air Force Memorial
Polish Air Force in Great Britain 		South Ruislip

51°32′56″N 0°24′01″W / 51.5488°N 0.4002°W / 51.5488; -0.4002 		2 November 1948 Mieczysław Lubelski War memorial with sculpture Grade II* [30]
Cast concrete abstract frieze Ticket hall of South Ruislip station 1961 c. 1961 Henry Haig Frieze — [31]


Stockley Park

Main article: Stockley Park
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes
In the Garden Outside 3 Roundwood Avenue, Stockley Park 1983 Peter Randall-Page Arup Associates; Charles Funke (landscape architect) Sculpture — Installed here in 1992; the work was previously untitled.[32]
Synchronised Sculpture Lake in front of the Arena Building, Bennetsfield Road, Stockley Park 1988 Kevin Atherton — Sculpture — Eight bronze legs cast from Sarah Northey, the British Synchronised Swimmer of the Year in 1987.[32]
Soaring American Eagle Outside 4 Roundwood Avenue, Stockley Park 1990 c. 1990 ? Peter Foggo Associates Sculpture — Commissioned by Electronic Data Systems.[32]
Lot's Wife Outside 1 Furzeground Way, Stockley Park 1990 Robin Caiger-Smith Geoffrey Darke & Associates Sculpture — Dow Chemicals commissioned the work, which alludes to the metamorphosis whereby brine is produced by mining salt deposits, as well as to Dow as a "forward-looking company".[33]
Osirisisis Outside 5 Longwalk Road, Stockley Park 1991 Stephen Cox Foster Associates Sculpture — [34]
Tetra Trellis Outside 1 Longwalk Road, Stockley Park 1993 William Pye Arup Associates Sculpture — Commissioned by Tetra Pak.[34]
Challenge Stockley Park 1995 Wendy Taylor Sculpture — [35]


Uxbridge

Main article: Uxbridge
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Designation Notes
Girder from Chepstow Railway Bridge Brunel University 1852 Isambard Kingdom Brunel Girder —

More images 		Uxbridge War Memorial The Old Graveyard, Windsor Street

51°32′40″N 0°28′51″W / 51.5445°N 0.4808°W / 51.5445; -0.4808 		1924 Adrian Jones War memorial with sculpture — Unveiled 11 November 1924.[36]
Winged wheels Entrance to Uxbridge tube station

51°32′46″N 0°28′44″W / 51.5461°N 0.4789°W / 51.5461; -0.4789 		1934 Joseph Armitage Architectural sculpture Grade II [37]
Coats of arms of the Basset family, of Middlesex and of Buckinghamshire Exit from Uxbridge tube station

51°32′46″N 0°28′44″W / 51.5462°N 0.4788°W / 51.5462; -0.4788 		1934 Ervin Bossányi Stained glass Grade II [38]
Saint Andrew's Gate Hillingdon Road roundabout

51°32′38″N 0°28′22″W / 51.5439°N 0.4729°W / 51.5439; -0.4729 		1957 [39]
Shoreditch College Golden Jubilee 1969 Brunel University 1969 Attributed to Philip John Whitten Relief — [40]
Anticipation
Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II 		Uxbridge town centre, outside The Chimes

51°32′45″N 0°28′44″W / 51.5459°N 0.4789°W / 51.5459; -0.4789 		25 June 2002 Anita Lafford — [41]

More images 		Statue of Isambard Kingdom Brunel Brunel University

51°31′59″N 0°28′30″W / 51.53307°N 0.47497°W / 51.53307; -0.47497 		6 July 2006 Anthony Stones Statue — [42]
Connect Brunel University 2016 Maria Celina Reyes Gallo, Huda Alnabhan, Abdurrahman Ozdemir and Yeqing Zheng Sculptural group — [43]
Hawker Hurricane Outside Battle of Britain Bunker Museum, RAF Uxbridge

51°32′26″N 0°27′52″W / 51.54051°N 0.464428°W / 51.54051; -0.464428 		Gate guardian [44]
Supermarine Spitfire Outside Battle of Britain Bunker Museum, RAF Uxbridge

51°32′25″N 0°27′52″W / 51.54031°N 0.464568°W / 51.54031; -0.464568 		Gate guardian [44]
Four Concrete Forms with White Brunel University Justin Knowles Sculpture — Given by Arts Council England.[45]


West Drayton

Main article: West Drayton
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes
Yiewsley and West Drayton War Memorial Harmondsworth Road, outside the entrance to West Drayton Cemetery

51°30′00″N 0°28′05″W / 51.49995°N 0.46798°W / 51.49995; -0.46798 		After 1918 ? — War memorial — [46]


Yiewsley

Main article: Yiewsley
Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes
Yiewsley War memorial St Matthew's Church, Yiewsley 1921 War memorial — Unveiled on 28 May 1921 by Lady Delia Peel

More images 		Artorius Outside Virtus London 6, Ironbridge Road North, Prologis Park West London, Yiewsley

51°30′36″N 0°27′09″W / 51.5101°N 0.4524°W / 51.5101; -0.4524 (Artorius) 		1990 John Raimondi Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Sculpture — [47]


References

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  2. ^ [Eastcote] War Memorial. Art UK. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
  3. ^ [Harefield] War Memorial. Art UK. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
  4. ^ Making Space. Art UK. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
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  6. ^ Kirk, Tristan (21 November 2008). "Gordon Brown unveils statue for Sir Magdi Yacoub". Hillingdon & Uxbridge Times. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
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