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List of public art in Aberdeen

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This is a list of public art in Aberdeen, Scotland. This list applies only to works of public art on permanent display in an outdoor public space and does not, for example, include artworks in museums.

Aberdeen Harbour

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
War memorial Pocra Quay, Footdee, Aberdeen Harbour 1919 Alexander Watson, James Garden Milne (designers) Obelisk on pedestal Stone [1]
Sea Moon Seafront, Aberdeen Bay 1986 Janusz Tkaczuk Abstract sculpture Metal and stone [2]

Balgownie

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
War memorial Oldmacher Church, Brig o' Balgownie 1920 William Boddie (builder) Pillar Granite [3]

City centre

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes

More images 		Mercat cross Castlegate 1686 John Montgomery of Old Rayne Statue on shaft and arched structure Sandstone Category A Q17576440 [4]
The Mannie Castle Street c. 1708 Statue and well housing Lead and stone [5][6]

More images 		George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon Golden Square 1842 Thomas Campbell with Macdonald Field & Co. Statue on pedestal Granite Category B Q17770129 [5][7]

More images 		Gordon of Khartoum In front of Robert Gordon's College, Schoolhill 1884 Thomas Stuart Burnett Statue on pedestal Bronze and granite 5m high Category B Q17770171 [5][8][9]

More images 		Queen Victoria Queen's Cross 1893 Charles Bell Birch Statue on pedestal Bronze and granite Category B Q17770185 [10]

More images 		Lord Byron Aberdeen Grammar School c. 1913 Alexander J. Leslie after James Pittendrigh Macgillivray Statue on pedestal Bronze and granite Category B Q17770109 [5][11]

More images 		Lion sculpture war memorial Exterior of Cowdray Hall, Blackfrairs Street 1925 William McMillan Sculpture on pedestal Granite Category A Q4666883 [12][13]
Sea Fantasy Grounds of Provost Skene's House 1946 T. B. Huxley-Jones Statue group Bronze [5]

More images 		Robert The Bruce Marischal College, Broad Street 2011 Alan Beattie Herriot Equestrian statue on pedestal Bronze and stone [14]
Poised Marischal Square, Broad Street 2017 Andy Scott Statue on pillar Steel 15m high [15]

Union Terrace

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
Albert, Prince Consort Union Terrace Unveiled 1863 Carlo Marochetti Seated statue on pedestal Bronze and granite 2.1m tall (statue) Category B Q17770085 [5][16]

More images 		Statue of William Wallace Union Terrace 1888 William Grant Stevenson Statue on pedestal Bronze and granite Category B Q8019940 [5][17]

More images 		Robert Burns Union Terrace 1892 Henry Bain Smith Statue on pedestal Bronze and granite Category B Q17770098 [5][18]

More images 		Edward VII Union Terrace 1914 Alfred Drury & A.G.R. Mackenzie (pedestal) Statue on pedestal with figure groups Granite Category B Q17770122 [5][19]

Duthie Park

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes

More images 		Monument to Sir James McGrigor Duthie Park 1860 Alexander Ellis (architect), James Giles (artist) Obelisk Granite Category C Q56624785 [20]

More images 		Gordon Highlanders memorial cross Duthie Park 1882 Celtic cross Granite 4.5m Category C Q77776608 [21][22]

More images 		Monument to Elizabeth Crombie Duthie Duthie Park 1883 Arthur Taylor (sculptor), John Cassidy of Manchester (designer) Statue of Hygeia on piller with lion sculptures at base Stone Category B Q17770643 [5][23]

More images 		Gordon Highlanders memorial obelisk Duthie Park 1898 F.W. Pomeroy (sculptor), Douglas Strachan (designer), Henderson & Webster (masons) Obelisk Granite 4.5m high Category C Q77776613 [24][25]

More images 		Alexander Taylor memorial fountain Duthie Park Late 19th century Fountain Stone Category C Q77776617 [26]

Dyce

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
War memorial Gordon Terrace, Dyce 1921 Dr. William Kelly (designer) Cenotaph Granite 4.5m high Category C Q56614453 [27][28]

Hazlehead Park

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
Alexander Cooper fountain Hazlehead Park 1901 Arthur Taylor (manufacturer) Fountain Granite and copper [29]

More images 		Piper Alpha memorial Hazlehead Park 1991 Sue Jane Taylor Statue group on pedestal Bronze and granite [30]

Nigg

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
War memorial Grounds of Parish Church, Nigg Gibb Bros. (masons) Obelisk on pedestal Granite 4.5m high [31]

Old Aberdeen

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes

More images 		Mercat cross High Street, Old Aberdeen Late 15th century Shaft on steps Stone Category B Q17770068 [32]

More images 		Youth with a split apple King's College, Aberdeen 2005 Kenny Hunter Statue on plinth Bronze

Peterculter

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
War memorial Peterculter 1920 R.W. Walker (architect) Tower Granite [33]

More images 		Boys Brigade memorial Peterculter 2009 Monolith Granite

References

  1. ^ "War Memorials Register: Footdee (or Fittie)". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  2. ^ "Aberdeen Maritime Trail" (PDF). Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  3. ^ "War Memorials Register: Balgownie or Bridge of Don or Oldmacher (otherwise Old Machar)". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  4. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Castlegate, Mercat Cross (Category A Listed Building) (LB19999)". Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Jennifer Melville (1998). The conservation of public sculpture in Aberdeen, published in Monuments and the Millennium Proceedings of a Joint Conference Organised by English Heritage and the United Kingdom Institute for Conservation. English Heritage. ISBN 1873936974.
  6. ^ "Aberdeen City HER - NJ90NW0025 - The Mannie". Aberdeen City Council. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  7. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Gordon, Duke of, Golden Square (Category B Listed Building) (LB20007)". Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  8. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Schoolhill, Statue of General Gordon of Khartoum (Category B Listed Building) (LB20009)". Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  9. ^ "War Memorials Register: Gordon of Khartoum, Aberdeen". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  10. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Queen's Cross, Queen Victoria Statue (Category B Listed Building) (LB20011)". Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  11. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Skene Street and Esslement Avenue, Aberdeen Grammar School, Lord Byron statue (Category B Listed Building) (LB20003)". Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  12. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Schoolhill and Blackfriars Street, Art Gallery including War Memorial and Cowdray Hall, Robert Gordon's College Archway and former Grays School of Art (Category A Listed Building) (LB19978)". Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  13. ^ "War Memorials Register: Aberdeen City war memorial". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  14. ^ "New Robert the Bruce statue unveiled in Aberdeen". BBC News. 9 May 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  15. ^ Laura Ferguson (3 November 2017). "Public to see new leopard sculpture at Marischal Square". Evening Express. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  16. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Albert, Prince, Statue, Union Terrace (Category B Listed Building) (LB20001)". Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  17. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Wallace, William, Union Terrace and Rosemount Viaduct (Category B Listed Building) (LB20012)". Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  18. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Burns, Robert Statue, Union Terrace (Category B Listed Building) (LB20002)". Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  19. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Edward VII, Statue, Junction of Union Street and Union Terrace (Category B Listed Building) (LB20004)". Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  20. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Duthie Park, McGrigor Obelisk (Category C Listed Building) (LB20010)". Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  21. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Duthie Park, Gordon Highlander's Celtic Cross Memorial (Category C Listed Building) (LB46782)". Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  22. ^ "War Memorials Register: Gordon Highlanders Egypt 1882 and Soudan 1884". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  23. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Drury Park,Hygeia Statue (Category B Listed Building) (LB20057)". Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  24. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Duthie Park, Gordon Highlander's Obelisk Memorial (Category C Listed Building) (LB46783)". Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  25. ^ "War Memorials Register: Gordon Highlanders India 1892 to 1898". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  26. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Duthie Park, Taylor Well (Category C Listed Building) (LB46784)". Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  27. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Dyce War Memorial Gordon Terrace, Dyce (Category C Listed Building) (LB2234)". Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  28. ^ "War Memorials Register: Dyce". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  29. ^ "Cooper Fountain, sited in Hazlehead Park, Aberdeen". Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  30. ^ "New exhibition for acclaimed Gray's alumni". Robert Gordon University Aberdeen. 3 September 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  31. ^ "War Memorials Register: Nigg". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  32. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Old Aberdeen Market Cross, outside Old Town House, High St., Old Aberdeen (Category B Listed Building) (LB20000)". Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  33. ^ "War Memorials Register: Peterculter". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
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