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Public Art in Coventry City Centre
The postwar redevelopment of Coventry led to a huge growth in Public Art. The Coventry Society is a great supporter and proponent of public art in our city and we have led trails and created maps to show it off. You can see a map of one such tour here.
Some of our public art is listed below:
William Reid-Dick – Self Sacrifice, Lady Godiva – Bronze cast
by Morris Singer
Coventry Cross (replica of 1542)
John Hutton – Cathedral West Screen – engraved glass
Jacob Epstain – St. Michael and the Devel – Bronze
cast by Morris Singer
Philip Bentham – Coventry Boy – Bronze cast by Morris
Singer
Coventry University Logo, Negus & Negus, based
on David Bethel (Head of Art College 1955) – Phoenix
Jean Parker – The Enfolding – Bath Stone
Gary Galpin – Mother and Children – limestone
Pictures by Colin Marsh at the Herbert
Dr. Tim Trelfall – Barra suite 5 – limestone
John Poole – Coventry Coat of Arms
F. E. McWilliam – Portrait Figure of Elizabeth Frink –
bronze 1965
Walter Ritchie – Man’s Struggle
Paul De Menchaux – Basilica – Purbeck, Portland
limestone, Frankland grey granite
Henry Wilson – Council House sculptures –
Runcorn stone & Portland stone
Unknown Artists –
Sculptures on banks in High Street
Sculpture and Metalwork motifs on the former National Provincial Bank
Trevor Tennant – Lady Godiva and Peeping Tom (clock)
Trevor Tennant – The People of Coventry –
Doulting stone
Unknown Craftsman – Peeping Tom
William George Mitchell – Panels
William George Mitchell – Three Tuns –
concrete
Robert Conybear & Uta Molling – Thread Through Time
– concrete rubble mix
Sir Guy and the Dun Cow by Alma Ramsey
Fred Millett – Locarno – Glass tiles
Thomas Gordan Cullen – History of Coventry Tiles
James C. Brown – Belgrade Mural
Norelle Keddie – Bryan Bailey Memorial
Helaine Blumenfeld – Two sides of a Woman
Simon Events – Steel Horse (Trigger)
Other Public Art that has been Lost or Relocated
In addition to these 34 pieces of public art, there are a number of works of public art that have graced our streets, but are no longer in situ. In particular there were a number of significant art works in Market Way and
Smithford Way.
Follow this link to see some of these.
There is also an art trail along the Coventry Canal.
We would welcome your commens on public artwork in Coventry. Please fill in the box below: