This is a list of public art in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, in the West Midlands, England. This list applies only to works of public art accessible in an outdoor public space. For example, this does not include artwork visible inside a museum.
Walsall
Town Centre
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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John Henry Carless VC | Lichfield Street, Walsall 52°35′09″N 1°58′45″W / 52.585906°N 1.979087°W |
1919 | Robert Jackson | Bust | Bronze | Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council | Q26677017 | |||
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Numbers | Park Street 52°35′10″N 1°59′06″W / 52.586033°N 1.984899°W |
Chris Edmunds | Mural | Q47455348 | ||||||
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Walsall Market Cross | 52°34′59″N 1°58′45″W / 52.583048°N 1.979223°W |
2013 | Relief | Q47455357 | ||||||
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Nonsense Poem Carving | Walsall Station 52°35′04″N 1°59′05″W / 52.584510°N 1.984849°W |
1995 | Matthew and Bryant Fedden | Poem fragments | Wood | Various from 25cm x 25cm to 30cm x 130cm | West Midlands Network | Poem on 21 wooden pieces around the station [1]
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Market Place
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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The Concrete Hippopotamus | Walsall Market Place - Park Street, Walsall 52°35′03″N 1°58′55″W / 52.584264°N 1.982023°W |
1972 | John Wood | Sculpture | Concrete | John Wood B.A M.D.L | Q47455447 | |||
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The Source of Ingenuity | Walsall Market Place, Walsall 52°35′03″N 1°58′55″W / 52.584285°N 1.981883°W |
Tom Lomax | Sculpture / fountain | Bronze | Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council | Q47455482 | ||||
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Sister Dora | Lloyds Bank, Walsall Market Place - Park Street, Walsall 52°35′03″N 1°58′56″W / 52.584211°N 1.98221°W |
1886 | Francis John Williamson | Statue | Bronze | Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council | Q47455461 |
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Saddlers Shopping Centre
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Walsall Saddle | Outside Saddlers Shopping Centre, Bradford Street, Walsall 52°35′01″N 1°58′59″W / 52.583690°N 1.983010°W |
Tom Lomax | Sculpture | Bronze | Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council | ||||
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Walsall Nombelisk | Outside Saddlers Shopping Centre - Bradford Street, Walsall 52°35′01″N 1°58′59″W / 52.583690°N 1.983010°W |
Tom Lomax | Sculpture | Bronze | Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council |
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Walsall Arboretum
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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Jerome K. Jerome | Near the Lodge at Walsall Arboretum 52°35′21″N 1°58′30″W / 52.58907281692238°N 1.9750350013084497°W |
June 11, 2016 | Phil Kelly | Bust | Bronze | Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council | The Jerome K. Jerome Society lobbied for the author to be recognised in his home town [2] | |||
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Fluffy the Oss | Near the Visitor Centre at Walsall Arboretum 52°35′28″N 1°58′15″W / 52.59100371147015°N 1.9709192013990866°W |
1990s, moved here in 2017 | Marjan Wouda | Horse statue | Bronze | Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council | Was originally outside the Civic Centre in Walsall in the 1990s. Relocated near the Visitor Centre at the Arboretum in 2017. It is part of the Industrial Garden. It had previously been vandalised and held in storage for years. [3]
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Bescot
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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Bescot Stadium Station railing sculpture | Bescot Stadium Station 52°33′50″N 1°59′27″W / 52.563975°N 1.990779°W |
Sculpture | West Midlands Network | The railings go under the M6 and over the River Tame, between the Metropolitan Boroughs of Sandwell and Walsall. A Gaelic Blessing by John Rutter is on paving stones on the footpath [4]
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Bloxwich
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Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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Bloxwich Station sculpture | Bloxwich Station, Croxdene Avenue, Bloxwich 52°37′04″N 2°00′39″W / 52.617747°N 2.010971°W |
2010 | Sculpture | West Midlands Network | Similar sculptures at Bloxwich North Station, Cannock Station, Hednesford Station and Rugeley Town Station | |||||
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Bloxwich North Station sculpture | Bloxwich North Station, Broad Lane, Bloxwich 52°37′32″N 2°01′03″W / 52.625555°N 2.017554°W |
2010 | Sculpture | West Midlands Network | Similar sculptures at Bloxwich Station, Cannock Station, Hednesford Station and Rugeley Town Station
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Brownhills
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Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Wikidata | Notes |
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Jigger | Brownhills 52°38′55″N 1°56′08″W / 52.64855°N 1.93569°W |
John McKenna | Sculpture | Stainless steel | 13 metres (43 ft) | Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council | Q47455512 |
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Willenhall
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Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Owner / administrator | Notes |
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Willenhall Lock Makers | Market Place, Willenhall 52°35′04″N 2°03′20″W / 52.584566°N 2.055535°W |
2001 | Freeform Arts Trust Ltd & Andrew Langley | Sculpture | Black and white painting on board | Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council | [5] | ||
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Four Keys | Junction of Market Place and Walsall Street; junction of Cross Street and Upper Lichfield Street; junction of Stafford Street and Union Street; junction of New Road and Newlands Close, Willenhall 52°35′06″N 2°03′22″W / 52.584931°N 2.056029°W |
2000 | Freeform Arts Trust Ltd & Andrew Langley | Sculpture | Mild steel plate, with black epoxy paint | Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council | Four Keys [6] | ||
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Memorial to the Lockmaking Industry | 33 Market Place, Willenhall 52°35′03″N 2°03′17″W / 52.584034°N 2.054751°W |
1968 | Staff & Pupils of Willenhall Comprehensive School | Sculpture | Fibre-glass, painted grey | Owen and Gravestock, Accountants, 33 Market Place | Renovated in 1994 [7]
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References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Public art in Walsall.
- ^ "Nonsense Poem Carving". National Recording Project. Public Monument and Sculpture Association. Archived from the original on 9 March 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
- ^ "Statue of writer to be unveiled at Walsall Arboretum". Express and Star. 30 May 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
- ^ "Bronze horse statue 'Fluffy' makes a comeback to Walsall Arboretum". Express and Star. 2 August 2017. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
- ^ "A Gaelic Blessing". Amaranth Publishing. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
- ^ "PMSA". pmsa.org.uk. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015.
- ^ "PMSA". pmsa.org.uk. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015.
- ^ "PMSA". pmsa.org.uk. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015.
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