List of public art in Greater Manchester
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{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2019}}
{{Incomplete list|date=December 2011}}
This is a list of public art in Greater Manchester, England, split according to metropolitan district.
This list applies only to works of public art accessible in an outdoor public space. For example, this does not include artwork that is only visible inside a museum.
[[Metropolitan Borough of Bolton|Bolton]]
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| Two Forms (Divided Circle) 1969 | University of Bolton, Bolton | 1982 | {{coord|53.57363 |
2.4357}} |
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| Bolton | 2008 | Jane Robbins | {{coord|53.579297 |
2.430199}} |
[[Metropolitan Borough of Bury|Bury]]
Manchester
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| Sir Robert Peel | Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester | 1853 | {{Coord|53|28|53|N|2|14|14.9|W |
|{{cite web|url= http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/public-art/robert-peel/|title= Robert Peel |access-date=29 December 2011|publisher=Manchester Art Gallery|year=2009}}{{cite web|url= http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR10.htm|title= Sir Robert Peel|access-date= 2 January 2012|publisher= Public Monument and Sculpture Association|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://archive.today/20070623011822/http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR10.htm|archive-date= 23 June 2007}}
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| 100px
| Chester Street, Manchester
| 1855
| {{coord|53.471889|-2.240447}}
|{{cite web|url= http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR49.htm|title= John Dalton|access-date= 5 January 2012|publisher= Public Monument and Sculpture Association|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://archive.today/20070623011822/http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR49.htm|archive-date= 23 June 2007}}{{cite book|publisher=English Heritage / PMSA|year=2000|title=A User's Guide to Public Sculpture |isbn=185074776-8}}
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| 100px
| Duke of Wellington
| Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester
| 1856
| {{coord|53.480879|-2.235674}}
|{{cite web|url= http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/public-art/duke-of-wellington/|title= Duke of Wellington|access-date=31 December 2011|publisher=Manchester Art Gallery|year=2009}}{{cite web|url= http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR11.htm|title= Duke of Wellington|access-date= 2 January 2012|publisher= Public Monument and Sculpture Association|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://archive.today/20070623011822/http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR11.htm|archive-date= 23 June 2007}}
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| 100px
| Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester
| 1857
| {{coord|53.481261|-2.23664}}
| {{cite web|url= http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/public-art/james-watt/|title= James Watt|access-date=31 December 2011|publisher=Manchester Art Gallery|year=2009}}{{cite web|url= http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR12.htm|title= James Watt|access-date= 2 January 2012|publisher= Public Monument and Sculpture Association|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://archive.today/20070623011822/http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR12.htm|archive-date= 23 June 2007}}
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| 100px
| 1867
| Statue Matthew Noble / Canopy Thomas Worthington
| {{coord|53.4795|-2.245209}}
| {{cite web|url= http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/public-art/albert-memorial/|title= Albert Memorial|access-date=13 January 2012|publisher=Manchester Art Gallery|year=2009}}{{cite web|url=http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR20.htm |title=Albert Memorial |access-date=13 January 2012 |publisher=Public Monument and Sculpture Association |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091017002226/http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR20.htm |archive-date=October 17, 2009}}
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| 100px
| St Ann's Square, Manchester
| 1867
| {{coord|53.481919|-2.245718}}
|{{cite web|url= http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/public-art/richard-cobden/|title= Richard Cobden|access-date=2 January 2012|publisher=Manchester Art Gallery|year=2009}}{{cite web|url= http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR01.htm|title= Richard Cobden|access-date= 2 January 2012|publisher= Public Monument and Sculpture Association|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://archive.today/20070623011822/http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR01.htm|archive-date= 23 June 2007}}
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| 100px
| Wythenshawe Hall, Manchester
| 1875
| {{coord|53.404783|-2.276823}}
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| 100px
| 1888
| {{coord|53.4799|-2.244971}}
|{{cite web|url= http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/public-art/james-fraser/|title= James Fraser|access-date=3 January 2012|publisher=Manchester Art Gallery|year=2009}}{{cite web|url=http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR05.htm |title=James Fraser |access-date=3 January 2012 |publisher=Public Monument and Sculpture Association |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022222815/http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR05.htm |archive-date=22 October 2009 }}
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| 100px
| 1891
| {{coord|53.479713|-2.245075}}
| {{cite web|url=http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/public-art/john-bright/|title= John Bright|access-date=1 January 2012|publisher=Manchester Art Gallery|year=2009}}{{cite web|url= http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR04.htm|title= John Bright|access-date= 2 January 2012|publisher= Public Monument and Sculpture Association|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://archive.today/20070623011822/http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR04.htm|archive-date= 23 June 2007}}
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| 100px
| 1894
| {{coord|53.479306|-2.24537}}
| {{cite web|url=http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/public-art/oliver-heywood/|title= Oliver Heywood|access-date=1 January 2012|publisher=Manchester Art Gallery|year=2009}}{{cite web|url=http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR02.htm |title=Oliver Heywood |access-date=2 January 2012 |publisher=Public Monument and Sculpture Association |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091017002216/http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR02.htm |archive-date=17 October 2009}}
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| 100px
| Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester
| 1901
| {{Coord|53|28|51.9|N|2|14|11.9|W|}}
|{{cite web|url= http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/public-art/queen-victoria/|title= Queen Victoria|access-date=29 December 2011|publisher=Manchester Art Gallery|year=2009}}{{cite web|url= http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR03.htm|title= Queen Victoria|access-date= 2 January 2012|publisher= Public Monument and Sculpture Association|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://archive.today/20070623011822/http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR03.htm|archive-date= 23 June 2007}}
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| 100px
| 1901
| {{coord|53.479101|-2.245512}}
|{{cite web|url= http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/public-art/william-gladstone/|title= William Gladstone|access-date=3 January 2012|publisher=Manchester Art Gallery|year=2009}}{{cite web|url=http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR06.htm |title=William Gladstone |access-date=3 January 2012 |publisher=Public Monument and Sculpture Association |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022222820/http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR06.htm |archive-date=22 October 2009 }}
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| Adrift
| St Peter's Square, Manchester
| 1908
| {{coord|53.478116|-2.243706}}
|{{cite web|url= http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/public-art/adrift/|title= Adrift|access-date=5 January 2012|publisher=Manchester Art Gallery|year=2009}}{{cite web|url=http://www.johncassidy.org.uk/adrift.html|title= 'Adrift' - City of Manchester |access-date=5 January 2012|publisher= John Cassidy: Manchester Sculptor}}
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| 100px
| The Last Shot / South African War Memorial
| St Ann's Square, Manchester
| 1908
| {{coord|53.482523|-2.24548}}
|{{cite web|url= http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/public-art/the-last-shot/|title= The Last Shot|access-date=7 January 2012|publisher=Manchester Art Gallery|year=2009}}{{cite web|url= http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR28.htm|title= South African War Memorial |access-date=7 January 2012|publisher= Public Monument and Sculpture Association}}{{dead link|date=October 2013}}
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| 100px
| Whitworth Park, Manchester
| 1913
| {{coord|53.459522|-2.228308}}
| {{cite web|url=http://www.johncassidy.org.uk/cassidy2c.html|title= King Edward VII, Whitworth Park, Manchester|access-date=10 January 2012|publisher= John Cassidy: Manchester Sculptor}}{{cite web|url=http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR52.htm |title=Edward VII |access-date=10 January 2012 |publisher=Public Monument and Sculpture Association |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110824080654/http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR52.htm |archive-date=24 August 2011}}
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| 100px
| Lincoln Square, Brazennose St, Manchester
| 1919
| {{coord|53.479669|-2.24716}}
|{{cite web|url= http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/public-art/abraham-lincoln/|title= Abraham Lincoln|access-date=1 January 2012|publisher=Manchester Art Gallery|year=2009}}{{cite web|url=http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR09.htm |title=Abraham Lincoln |access-date=2 January 2012 |publisher=Public Monument and Sculpture Association |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716184056/http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR09.htm |archive-date=16 July 2011}}
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| Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester
| 1924
| {{coord|53.4776|-2.2438}}
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| Messenger Of Peace
| Cooper Street, Manchester
| 1986 - 2018
| Barbara Pearson
| {{coord|53.478705|-2.243047}}
|{{cite web|url= http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/public-art/messenger-of-peace/|title= Messenger Of Peace|access-date=31 December 2011|publisher=Manchester Art Gallery|year=2009}}{{cite web|url= http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR14.htm|title= Messenger Of Peace|access-date= 2 January 2012|publisher= Public Monument and Sculpture Association|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://archive.today/20070623011822/http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR14.htm|archive-date= 23 June 2007}}{{cite web |last1=Williams |first1=Jennifer |title=Lincoln Square set to become a peace garden in £4m plan to make neglected plaza a 'calm space' |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/lincoln-square-set-become-home-14724215 |website=Manchester Evening News |access-date=7 November 2024 |language=en |date=31 May 2018}}
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| 100px
| Balloon Street, Manchester
| 1994
| {{coord|53.48613|-2.24108}}
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| 100px
| Life Cycle
| Deansgate, Manchester
| 1995
| {{coord|53.474351|-2.251578}}
|{{cite web|url= http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/public-art/life-cycle/|title= Life Cycle|access-date=15 January 2012|publisher=Manchester Art Gallery|year=2009}}{{cite web|url= http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR110.htm|title= Life Cycle|access-date= 15 January 2012|publisher= Public Monument and Sculpture Association|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://archive.today/20070623011822/http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR110.htm|archive-date= 23 June 2007}}
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| Ishinki Touchstone
| Barbirolli Square, Manchester
| 1996
| Kan Yasuda
| {{coord|53.475875|-2.245557}}
|{{cite web|url= http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/public-art/ishinki-touchstone/|title= Ishinki Touchstone |access-date=4 January 2012|publisher=Manchester Art Gallery|year=2009}}{{cite web|url= http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR99.htm|title= Ishinki-Touchstone|access-date= 4 January 2012|publisher= Public Monument and Sculpture Association|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://archive.today/20070623011822/http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR99.htm|archive-date= 23 June 2007}}
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| 100px
| The Big Horn/Tib Street Horn
| Tib Street, Manchester
| 1999
| David Kemp
| {{coord|53.482732|-2.23663}}
| {{cite web|url= http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR112.htm|archive-url= https://archive.today/20070623011822/http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR112.htm|url-status= dead|archive-date= 23 June 2007|title= Tib Street Horn |access-date=2 January 2012|publisher= Public Monument and Sculpture Association}}{{cite web|url= http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/public-art/big-horn/|title= Big Horn |access-date=2 January 2012|publisher=Manchester Art Gallery|year=2009}}
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| 100px
| Barbirolli Square, Manchester
| 2000
| Byron Howard
| {{coord|53.475599|-2.245858}}
| {{cite web|url= http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR100.htm|title= Sir John Barbirolli|access-date= 4 January 2012|publisher= Public Monument and Sculpture Association|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://archive.today/20070623011822/http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR100.htm|archive-date= 23 June 2007}}{{cite web|url= http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/public-art/john-barbirolli/|title= John Barbirolli |access-date=4 January 2012|publisher=Manchester Art Gallery|year=2009}}
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| 100px
| Memorial to Alan Turing
| Sackville Gardens, Manchester
| 2001
| Glyn Hughes
| {{Coord|53|28|36.2|N|2|14|9.7|W|}}
|{{cite web|url= http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/public-art/alan-mathison-turing/|title= Alan Mathison Turing |access-date=29 December 2011|publisher=Manchester Art Gallery|year=2009}}{{cite web|url= http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR107.htm|title= Alan Turing|access-date= 1 January 2012|publisher= Public Monument and Sculpture Association|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://archive.today/20070623011822/http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-MCR107.htm|archive-date= 23 June 2007}}
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| 100px
| Tree of Remembrance
| Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester
| 2005
| Wolfgang and Heron
| {{coord|53.481108|-2.237803}}
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| 100px
| 2005–2009
| {{coord|53|28|55|N|2|11|46|W}}
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| 100px
| Tony Wilson Place, Manchester
| c. 1970s, relocated 2017
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|Relocated from Ukraine in 2017 by the artist Phil Collins.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jun/30/phil-collins-why-i-took-a-soviet-statue-of-engels-across-europe-to-manchester|title=Phil Collins: why I took a Soviet statue of Engels across Europe to Manchester|author=Charlotte Higgins|date=30 June 2017|access-date=10 November 2020}}
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|Peterloo
|People's History Museum, Manchester
|2018
|Axel Void
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| 100px
| Rise up, Women, statue of Emmeline Pankhurst
| St Peter's Square, Manchester
|2018
| {{Coord|53|28|40|N|2|14|35|W}}
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[[Metropolitan Borough of Oldham|Oldham]]
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| Robert Ascroft
| 1903 | |
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|Outside Inn |Main Street, Faiksworth |1993 |Tim Shutter |53.511264, -2.156218 |The artist |
[[Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale|Rochdale]]
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| George Leach Ashworth
| Broadfield Park, Rochdale | 1878 | W. & T. Wills | |
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| Broadfield Park, Rochdale | 1891 | {{coord|53.6145 |
2.162291}} |
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| The Esplanade, Rochdale | 1922 | {{coord|53.616238 |
2.159743}} |
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| Unity | The Esplanade, Rochdale | 1995 | Alec Peever | {{coord|53.615337 |
2.16104}}
| {{cite web|url= http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-ROC04.htm|title= Unity |access-date=5 January 2012|publisher= Public Monument and Sculpture Association}}{{dead link|date=October 2013}}{{rp|323}} |
[[City of Salford|Salford]]
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| Queen Victoria | 1857 | {{coord|53.484775 |
2.272133}} |
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| Lancashire Fusiliers' South African War Memorial | Chapel Street/Oldfield Road, Salford | 1905 | Sir George Frampton | {{coord|53.483031 |
2.264078}}
| {{cite web|url= http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-SAL13.htm|title= Lancashire Fusiliers' South African War Memorial |access-date=7 January 2012|publisher= Public Monument and Sculpture Association}}{{dead link|date=October 2013}}{{rp|176}} |
[[Metropolitan Borough of Stockport|Stockport]]
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| 1886 | {{coord|53.409407 |
2.159418}} |
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| The River of Life | Source of the River Mersey, Stockport | 1994 / 1996 | Mind Stockport / Alison Simpson | {{coord|53|24|51.84|N|2|9|22.68|W}} | {{cite book |author=Phil Page & Ian Littlechilds |year=2014 |title=River Mersey - From Source to Sea|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qiH8AwAAQBAJ |publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited |isbn=9781445633275}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.alisonsimpson.net/cv/ |title=BIOGRAPHY | Alison Simpson Sculptor |access-date=25 August 2014 |archive-date=11 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150811021752/http://www.alisonsimpson.net/cv/ |url-status=dead }} |
[[Tameside]]
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| The Family | 1995 | Paul Margetts | {{coord|53.489321 |
2.091608}} |
[[Trafford]]
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| Worthington Park, Sale | 1905 | | {{cite web|url=http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-TRA05.htm |title=James Prescott Joule |access-date=1 January 2012 |publisher=Public Monument and Sculpture Association |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110824084507/http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/MR/MR-TRA05.htm |archive-date=24 August 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.johncassidy.org.uk/joule.html|title= James Prescott Joule: Worthington Park, Sale |access-date=1 January 2012|publisher= John Cassidy: Manchester Sculptor}} |
[[Metropolitan Borough of Wigan|Wigan]]
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| Mesnes Park, Wigan | 1910 | {{coord|53.551694 |
2.635311}} |
References
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