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There are more than 400 public artworks in the City of Westminster, a borough in central London. Those discussed in this article include freestanding statues, busts and other kinds of permanent sculpture, memorials (excluding plaques without a sculptural element on buildings), fountains, murals, gates and exterior mosaics in the City of Westminster, except for those in the former metropolitan boroughs of Paddington and St Marylebone and in two of the Royal Parks of London, Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens. Separate articles list works in the aforementioned areas and architectural sculpture across the borough. There is more public sculpture in the City of Westminster than in any other area of London. This reflects the borough's central location containing most of the West End, the political centres of Westminster and Whitehall and three of the Royal Parks (Green Park, Hyde Park and St James's Park, with parts also of Regent's Park and Kensington Gardens). Many of the most notable sites for commemoration in London lie within its boundaries, including Trafalgar Square, Parliament Square and the Victoria Embankment. Other monuments of note in the borough include the Albert Memorial and the Victoria Memorial. After World War I many memorials to that conflict were raised in the area, the most significant being the Grade I-listed Cenotaph in Whitehall. So great is the number of monuments in the borough that Westminster City Council has deemed an area stretching from Whitehall to St James's to be a "monument saturation zone", where the addition of new memorials is generally discouraged. The same restriction applies in Royal Parks within the borough. In addition to the permanent works which are the subject of this article, the City of Westminster is also host to several temporary displays of sculpture. The most prominent of these is at the Fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, which has shown works by contemporary artists on rotation since 1999. Temporary outdoor displays of sculpture can also be seen at the Royal Academy and the Chelsea College of Arts. In 2010 Westminster City Council inaugurated the ''City of Sculpture'' project, which has seen contemporary sculpture installed in locations across the borough. == Aldwych / Strand == Strand is the thoroughfare that has linked the City of London with Westminster since the time of the Anglo-Saxons; Aldwych is a crescent at its eastern end created during urban improvements in the early 20th century. Among the examples of architectural sculpture in this area, of particular note are Jacob Epstein's reliefs of the ''Ages of Man'' for Zimbabwe House (originally the British Medical Association building). These figures were the sculptor's first major works in Britain and the subject of heated controversy due to their nudity in a public setting. Much of the recent public art in this area was bequeathed to the London School of Economics in 2005 by Louis Odette, a Canadian alumnus of the university, who also founded the Windsor Sculpture Park in Windsor, Ontario. He bequeathed a total of 13 works, mainly by Canadian sculptors, to the institution; not all of these are within the remit of this list, as some are situated indoors or in the adjacent borough of Camden. | date = | artist = | architect = | notes = The King, in the upper group, leans on a rudder and is flanked by a British lion and the prow of a classical barge; the Thames is represented below him as a river god. The maritime theme refers both to the function of the building, as offices for the Royal Navy (among other institutions), and to the King himself as steering the ship of state. | designation = }} | date = 1905 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled 4 November 1905. Allegorical figures around the base represent Courage, Education, Aspiration and Brotherhood. Also represented are the arms of Gladstone's constituencies, Midlothian, Oxford University, the Duchy of Lancaster and Newark. | designation = }} | date = 1910 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled 4 August 1910. Fitzgerald was an amateur sculptor and something of a self-appointed authority on Dr Johnson, who was a parishioner of St Clement's. A portrait medallion of James Boswell is set into the pedestal, which is a post-war replacement for the original. | designation = }} | date = 1923 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled 27 January 1924 in the centre of the courtyard of Somerset House; relocated in 2002. The fictive flags, carved from stone and painted, are a feature that Lutyens originally intended to employ on the Cenotaph in Whitehall. | designation = }} | commonscat = | type = Plaque with portrait relief | location = Strand, rear of central block of Bush House | coordinates = | date = 1924 | artist = | architect = | notes = Inscribed . Young oversaw the building of Aldwych and Kingsway in 1899–1905. | designation = }} | date = 1961 | artist = | architect = White-Cooper & Turner | notes = The mosaic represents the River Thames and subjects taught at the LSE. | designation = }} | date = 1988 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled 30 October 1988 by the Queen Mother.〔 The first of a pair of statues of notable Royal Air Force personnel to be erected outside St Clement Danes, the Central Church of the RAF.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Welcome to St Clement Danes )〕 The pose has been described as "deliberately unheroic". | designation = }} | date = 1991 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled 14 November 1991 in India House. | designation = }} | date = 1992 | artist = | architect = | notes = Unveiled 31 May 1992 by the Queen Mother. The decision to commemorate "Bomber" Harris ignited a major controversy and was criticised by the mayors of Cologne and Dresden. The unveiling was met by a public protest. | designation = }} | date = 2000 | artist = | architect = | notes = Part of the Odette bequest. A small bronze of an eagle's head.〔 | designation = }} | date = 2002 | artist = | architect = | notes = Part of the Odette bequest. An abstract representation, in stainless steel, of a human figure bowing its head to passers-by. Another version is at the Windsor Sculpture Park.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Salutation—Ralph Hicks )〕 | designation = }} | date = 2002 | artist = | architect = | notes = Part of the Odette bequest. This work and Yolanda vanderGaast's ''Penguin'' were sited on Clare Market as the LSE crèche was at that time located at the top of the street, and it was thought that these sculptures might appeal to children. The crèche has since moved.〔 | designation = }} | date = 2003 | artist = | architect = | notes = Part of the Odette bequest.〔 | designation = }} | date = 2003 | artist = | architect = | notes = Part of the Odette bequest. A bronze copy of a smaller marble original of 1977, produced during the artist's "Stone Age" period. | designation = }} | date = 2009 | artist = | architect = | notes = Part of the Odette bequest. VanderGaast's original ''Penguin'' of 2002〔 stood in Clare Market from 2005. In 2009 it was stolen; the thieves left only the flippers behind. The replacement statue is more firmly secured to the ground than its predecessor. | designation = }} 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of public art in the City of Westminster」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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