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This article lists public artworks which used to exist in London, but which have either been destroyed or removed to another place. Works which have been moved within London are not included, nor are temporary installations such as those on the Fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square. However, where one statue has been removed and replaced by another similar one, the former is included in this list.

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  • This article lists public artworks which used to exist in London, but which have either been destroyed or removed to another place. Works which have been moved within London are not included, nor are temporary installations such as those on the Fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square. However, where one statue has been removed and replaced by another similar one, the former is included in this list. (en)
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  • The Stag (en)
  • Pearl Assurance War Memorial (en)
  • Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, Aldershot (en)
  • One Nation Under CCTV (en)
  • Statue of John Cass (en)
  • Statue of Robert Milligan (en)
  • The Artist as Hephaestus (en)
  • Equestrian statue of Charles II of England trampling Cromwell (en)
  • Cheapside Cross (en)
  • Dr Salter's Daydream (en)
  • Eleanor cross, Charing Cross (en)
  • Fountains at Centre Point (en)
  • Statue of Hans Sloane, Chelsea Physic Garden (en)
  • Statue of Terence Cuneo, London Waterloo station (en)
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  • Leicester Square (en)
  • Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (en)
  • Craven Cottage, Fulham (en)
  • Charing Cross (en)
  • Cheapside (en)
  • Vauxhall Park (en)
  • Pearl Assurance head offices, 247–252 High Holborn (en)
  • Northern Polytechnic Institute , Holloway Road, Islington (en)
  • Opposite the entrance to Tower Three, London School of Economics (en)
  • Aldgate High Street ; Jewry Street (en)
  • Ashburton Estate, Wandsworth (en)
  • Atterbury Street, Millbank (en)
  • Barnsbury (Girls) Secondary School, Islington (en)
  • Cherry Gardens, Bermondsey (en)
  • Cleveland Estate, Tower Hamlets ; Millwall Park (en)
  • Coombe Road, Kingston upon Thames (en)
  • Crown Woods School, Eltham (en)
  • Doulton pottery works, Albert Embankment (en)
  • Elm Court School, Tulse Hill (en)
  • Garratt Green School, Wandsworth (en)
  • Geffrye Almshouses , Shoreditch (en)
  • Grosvenor Gardens, Westminster (en)
  • Hampstead Civic Centre (en)
  • Intersection of Knightsbridge and Brompton Road (en)
  • Lollard School, Southwark (en)
  • Museum of London Docklands, Hertsmere Road (en)
  • Newman Street, Fitzrovia (en)
  • On roof of 43–45 Notting Hill Gate (en)
  • Repository Road, Woolwich (en)
  • Rock Circus , Piccadilly Circus (en)
  • Roof of the Hayward Gallery (en)
  • Roupell Court Old People's Home, Lambeth (en)
  • Sarel House, Tower Hamlets (en)
  • Sedgehill School, Lewisham (en)
  • Silverwood Estate, Southwark (en)
  • Sir John Cass's Foundation, 31 Jewry Street (en)
  • Stag Place, now Cardinal Place, Victoria (en)
  • State House, High Holborn (en)
  • Sydenham Hill Estate (en)
  • Above door of 3 Station Approach, near Kew Gardens station (en)
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  • The sculptor's first commission from the London County Council, this work went missing during redevelopment of the site in the early 2000s. (en)
  • Hunter lived at 28 Leicester Square from 1783 to 1793. Albert Grant, the owner of Leicester Square in 1874, originally commissioned Woolner to sculpt a bust of Samuel Johnson, who frequented Reynolds’s house on the square (en)
  • Moved to the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in 1947. (en)
  • Geffrye's will provided for the creation of the almshouses; Nost's statue and the residents alike moved out to Mottingham in 1912. The replica was installed that year, before the building opened as a museum in 1914. (en)
  • Also of lead, this was probably from the same model as the Leicester Square statue. Bought from Nost's workshop by Sir Richard Grosvenor in 1725. (en)
  • The sculpture, designed to be suitable for children to handle, was stolen from the school shortly after it was unveiled. (en)
  • One of four busts of historical residents of the area, installed as part of Knowles’s redesign of the gardens, which were removed in 2010–12. This bust originally stood in the south-eastern corner of the square, near where Hogarth had a house from 1733 until his death in 1764, but moved to the north-east in the 1989–92 refurbishment of the square. (en)
  • Inspired by fountains the sculptor had seen at the Alhambra in Granada. Removed in 2009 when the plaza in front of Centre Point was pedestrianised as part of construction work for Crossrail. The fountains were given to the Architectural Association for installation at Hooke Park, the AA's school for rural architecture in Dorset. (en)
  • Formerly stood in the north-western corner of the gardens, a site close to 47 Leicester Square, where Reynolds lived from 1760 until his death in 1792. (en)
  • The figure on horseback originally represented the Polish king John Sobieski and the lower figure a defeated Turk. The sculpture was bought in 1675 by Sir Robert Vyner, who had the rider's head remodelled to portray Charles II. In 1739 it was removed for the construction of the Mansion House; since 1883 it has stood outside Newby Hall, Yorkshire. (en)
  • Demolished in 2002. (en)
  • A late addition to the complex, the sculpture was intended to recall the Stag Brewery which had stood on the site. Removed in 1997 to the Kent Millennium River Walk, Maidstone. (en)
  • A commission by the London County Council, situated outside the estate's community centre, where a mother and baby clinic was held. In 1970 the work was reported stolen. (en)
  • In 2006 one of the three figures was stolen. (en)
  • Sold at auction in 2004. (en)
  • Stolen in 2009 and never recovered. (en)
  • Stolen in December 2011. (en)
  • Stolen in the 1980s. (en)
  • In 2015 the sculpture was moved to the National Trust property of Mottisfont in Hampshire. (en)
  • Originally stood in a niche at the school funded by Cass . The statue was moved to premises on Jewry Street in 1869, which were rebuilt in 1898–1901. Moved indoors by 1919. In 1980 it was put on permanent loan to the Guildhall. A replica stood in the niche at Jewry Street from 1998 to 2020. (en)
  • Gates of jagged aluminium. As of 2017 they are no longer at this location. (en)
  • In 2014 the statue was moved to the National Football Museum in Manchester. (en)
  • Cheere produced a bronzed lead statuette of the Duke of Cumberland in around 1745. In 1770 a full-scale statue differing slightly from this model was erected in Cavendish Square; it was removed in 1868 and melted down. In the summer of 2012 a replica made of soap by the Korean artist Meekyoung Shin was installed on the plinth and allowed to erode over the course of a year. The display was later extended by a further six months to the end of 2013 and other versions were installed in the grounds of the South Korean National Museum of Contemporary Art and at MoCA Taipei. (en)
  • The sculpture stood in situ from 1972 to 2008, when it was taken down for renovation. Although the gallery has stated that it was originally commissioned as a temporary installation, the artist has disputed this and called for the work to be reinstated permanently. (en)
  • The terracotta statue stood at this site until 1910, when it was removed for roadworks and destroyed. Other statues from the same mould went to Newbury and Gravesend. (en)
  • Moved to Larkhill Garrison, Wiltshire, at some point after October 2008. (en)
  • The work was commissioned for the site. In 1990 State House was demolished and Meridian was bought for the Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens at the international headquarters of PepsiCo in Purchase, New York (en)
  • The costliest and most elaborate of the Eleanor crosses marking the sites where the Queen’s funeral cortège rested on the way to her burial at Westminster Abbey. The master mason Richard of Crundale died in 1293, after which the work was taken up by his brother Roger. The cross was destroyed under the orders of Parliament in 1647. (en)
  • The seated statue of Alfred Salter was stolen in 2011, after which the figures of his daughter Joyce and her cat were taken into safekeeping by Southwark Council. The new work includes an additional sculpture portraying Salter's wife, Ada. (en)
  • Part of Louis Odette’s 2005 bequest of sculptures to the LSE. As of 2013 the sculpture is no longer at this location. (en)
  • This replica, one of several made to mark the foundation's 250th anniversary, stood in the niche once occupied by Roubiliac's original. (en)
  • A recumbent nude statue of Pocahontas. Commissioned by the publisher Cassell and based on that firm's colophon, which referred to its originally having been based near Ludgate Hill where Pocantontas had once lived. This was later removed to Greycoat Place, Victoria, and then to Villiers House, Strand. It is thought to have been sold at auction in 1996. (en)
  • Missing since 1999, when the part of the school where the sculpture was located was sold off. (en)
  • Intended as a national memorial to George IV, this structure gave its name to the district of Kings Cross. It was much criticised and was demolished in 1845. (en)
  • Demolished in 2004. London Metropolitan University's Graduate School, designed by Daniel Libeskind, now stands on the site. (en)
  • Commissioned in 1732, installed in a greenhouse in 1737 and moved to the centre of the garden in 1748. The statue deteriorated over time and was moved to the British Museum in 1983. A fibreglass replica was installed in its place; this too deteriorated and was replaced by a copy made of jesmonite. That in turn was replaced in 2014 by a copy in Portland stone. (en)
  • First exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the work disappeared soon after its installation on the estate. (en)
  • Newton lived nearby, on 35 St Martin's Street, from 1710 to 1725. The bust was formerly in the south-western corner of the gardens. (en)
  • To produce this work Banksy erected and dismantled three storeys of scaffolding without being observed, despite the site being behind a tall fence and in full view of a CCTV camera. Westminster City Council destroyed the work as an example to graffiti artists. (en)
  • Originally placed within the Hibbert Gate, immediately south of the entrance of the West India Docks office. Moved in 1875 to the top of the central gate pier at the West India Dock Road entrance, which was dismantled in 1943. Restored to its original position in 1997. Removed in 2020 in response to Black Lives Matter protests. (en)
  • Commissioned by the London and Paris Property Group for the site, which was the front façade of their new offices. The plaster and polystyrene model for the statue, which is a self-portrait, is in the National Portrait Gallery. Sold at auction by Bonhams in 2012. (en)
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  • Fountains (en)
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  • Meridian (en)
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  • The Swans (en)
  • Stag (en)
  • The Watchers (en)
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  • Pearl Assurance War Memorial (en)
  • Birds in Flight (en)
  • La Belle Sauvage (en)
  • One Nation Under CCTV (en)
  • Poets' Fountain (en)
  • Statue of Michael Jackson (en)
  • The Artist as Hephaestus (en)
  • The Climber (en)
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  • (Alfred Salter) (en)
  • (Eleanor of Castile) (en)
  • A Boy on a Dolphin (en)
  • Afghan and Zulu War Memorial (en)
  • Bolted Flat (en)
  • Dr Salter's Daydream (en)
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  • The Cheapside Cross (en)
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  • (Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare and John Milton) (en)
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