List of public art in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham

This is a list of public art in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.

Map of public art in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham

Barking

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Barking War Memorial	Barking Park 51°32′40″N 0°05′01″E / 51.5445°N 0.0836°E / 51.5445; 0.0836 (Barking War Memorial)	1922	—	Charles James Dawson	War memorial	Grade II	[1]
	The Catch	Fanshawe Avenue Roundabout 51°32′27″N 0°04′58″E / 51.5409°N 0.0829°E / 51.5409; 0.0829 (The Catch)	2002	Loraine Leeson	Anne Thorne Architects	Sculpture	—	[2]
	Folly Wall	Town Square	2007	?	muf	Folly	—	[3][4]
	The Lighted Lady of Barking	Roundabout at junction of Abbey Road and London Road 51°32′16″N 0°04′20″E / 51.53775°N 0.07232°E / 51.53775; 0.07232	2007	Joost van Santen	—	Sculpture	—	[5]
	Statue of Job Henry Charles Drain VC	Outside the Broadway Theatre, facing Barking Abbey Park 51°32′07″N 0°04′39″E / 51.5353°N 0.0776°E / 51.5353; 0.0776 (Statue of Job Drain)	2009	Steven Hunter (Sculpt-It Limited); Mark Barnett (relief plaque)	—	Statue	—	[6][7]

London Bridge Stones

In 2007, two small stones from remains of the old medieval London Bridge^[8] were joined together in a sculpture in front of St Margaret's church facing the Barking Abbey ruins as part of several public artworks placed in Barking Town Centre by artist Joost van Santen.^[9]

Dagenham

Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Artist / designer	Architect / other	Type	Designation	Notes
	Dagenham Village War Memorial	Junction of Church Lane and Crown Street 51°32′24″N 0°09′41″E / 51.5399°N 0.1614°E / 51.5399; 0.1614 (Dagenham Village War Memorial)	2000	?	?	War memorial cross	—	[10]
	Dagenham Idol	Valence Park	2009 c. 2009	?	—	Sculpture	—	An iron maquette for an unrealised large sculpture, based on the prehistoric artefact of the same name.[11]
	Capri MkI	Valence Park	2010–11	A. J. Baldwin	—	Sculpture	—	An iron sculpture commissioned as part of the redevelopment of Valence House, the borough's local history museum; it alludes to the Ford Dagenham factory.[12]

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External links

• Media related to Sculptures in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham at Wikimedia Commons