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This is a list of public art in Whitehall, a district in the City of Westminster, London. Whitehall is at the centre of the highest concentration of memorials in the City of Westminster, in which 47% of the total number of such works in the borough are located. It includes the eponymous street of Whitehall and Horse Guards Parade, both important ceremonial spaces, and Horse Guards Road, which forms its western boundary with St James's Park. The area's monuments are mainly military in character, foremost among them being the Cenotaph, which is the focal point of the national Remembrance Sunday commemorations held each year.

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  • This is a list of public art in Whitehall, a district in the City of Westminster, London. Whitehall is at the centre of the highest concentration of memorials in the City of Westminster, in which 47% of the total number of such works in the borough are located. It includes the eponymous street of Whitehall and Horse Guards Parade, both important ceremonial spaces, and Horse Guards Road, which forms its western boundary with St James's Park. The area's monuments are mainly military in character, foremost among them being the Cenotaph, which is the focal point of the national Remembrance Sunday commemorations held each year. (en)
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  • (for HOK International) (en)
  • Gardiner & Theobald (en)
  • and Clyde Young (en)
  • and Henry Tanner (en)
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  • Anon. (en)
  • (after George Henry Paulin) (en)
  • (after Harry Bates) (en)
  • (after Richard Reginald Goulden) (en)
  • (and F. J. Wilcoxson) (en)
  • and William Silver Frith (en)
  • or John Birnie Philip (en)
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  • Statue of Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, Whitehall, London (en)
  • Equestrian statue of the Viscount Wolseley (en)
  • Earl Haig Memorial, Whitehall, London (en)
  • Royal Naval Division Memorial (en)
  • Cenotaph, London (en)
  • Equestrian statue of the Earl Roberts in Horse Guards Parade, London (en)
  • Statue of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (en)
  • Bali Memorial in London (en)
  • Bust of Charles I, Banqueting House, London (en)
  • Cádiz Memorial, London (en)
  • Earth and Water by Charles Wheeler (en)
  • Guards Memorial, London (en)
  • King Charles Street Archway, London (en)
  • Royal Tank Regiment Memorial, Whitehall Place (en)
  • Statue of Bernard Montgomery, Whitehall, London (en)
  • Statue of Clive of India, London (en)
  • The Gurkha Soldier, London (en)
  • Statue of Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, London (en)
  • Statue of William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, Whitehall, London (en)
  • Monument to the Women of World War II, Whitehall, London (en)
  • Statue of Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Whitehall, London (en)
  • Statue of Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, Whitehall, London (en)
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  • King Charles Street (en)
  • Whitehall Court (en)
  • Horse Guards Avenue façade (en)
  • Junction of Horse Guards Avenue and Whitehall (en)
  • King Charles Street, facing Horse Guards Road (en)
  • Mountbatten Green, off Horse Guards Road (en)
  • North façade (en)
  • The Red Lion, Parliament Street (en)
  • Whitehall Place façade (en)
  • Whitehall façade (en)
  • Whitehall, opposite the Old War Office Building (en)
  • Whitehall, outside the Ministry of Defence (en)
  • Horse Guards Avenue, outside Ministry of Defence Main Building (en)
  • Horse Guards Road, rear of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (en)
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  • Erected 1912 in the gardens of Gwydyr House; moved to present site in 1916. The statue was the brainchild of Lord Curzon, who felt that Clive had been insufficiently honoured for his role in establishing the British Empire in India. A marble version was also created for erection in Calcutta. (en)
  • Carved from 40 tons of Portland stone. Corresponding sculptures of Fire and Air were originally intended for the building's southern entrance, but were vetoed by the Treasury. (en)
  • Montford sculpted the relief panel on the attic storey facing Parliament Street, and the groups of Old Age and Youth flanking it; Frith produced the allegorical figures in the spandrels on both sides of the structure. (en)
  • Commemorates an occasion in Dickens's boyhood when he visited this pub and asked for a glass of "genuine stunning" ale; he was given one, together with a kiss, by the landlady. (en)
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