LINKS

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This page gives links to organisations which may be able to deal with enquiries about threatened public sculptures and monuments

EH - English Heritage
View contact details of regional offices on a separate page.

Local Authority web sites - a complete list, arranged alphabetically. Go to the appropriate site for your area to find the email address of the relevant Officer (but see below).
Another website giving information about Local Authorities, with contacts, and maps of each county with Local Authority areas which give direct links to the relevant web sites (a decided bonus).

A word of warning: getting specific information from most Local Authority websites about public art, and what department, and what indidividual in that department, deals with public art, is well nigh impossible. In general (with a few notable exceptions) Council web sites are quite appalling examples of web site design. If Councils functioned like their websites, the infrastructure of local administration in the UK would quite simply grind to a halt.  Monuments and sculptures are likely to be dealt with by different departments.  Most Councils (amongst them the Corporation of London) do not have a policy on public art.  If they acknowledge its existence, it is often subsumed under 'leisure', but may be anywhere (or it may not).  Some authorities have Arts Development Officers, who are the best people to target, if they exist.  Look under the A-Z of Council services, and follow the links (again if they have bothered to provide them).  Otherwise, get the relevant phone numbers, and resort to tried and tested technology. Good telephone receptionists are often a mine of helpful information.
      If anyone finds anything informative or useful about public art on a Local Authority web site, please email me, with a link included. I will put it in the main LINKS section on this site.

EH/NMR - National Monuments Record, English Heritage
email: nmrinfo@english-heritage.org.uk
In London and Swindon the NMR holds national sets of the official 'Lists' - see DCMS below. The NMR also holds extensive photographic collections, but note that apart from inner-London government-maintained sites sculpture and public monuments are not well represented.

IOE - Images of England
www.imagesofengland.org.uk
Website presenting images for all 'Listed' sites [see DCMS]. Data not complete for the whole of England.

Victorian Society
contact: Richard Holder
www.victorian-society.org.uk
Active in case-work and advice.

Twentieth Century Society
www.c20society.demon.co.uk
Active in case-work and advice.

Courtauld Institute of Art
contact: Jo Darke
www.courtauld.ac.uk
email: jo.darke@courtauld.ac.uk
The Courtauld hosts the PMSA offices and website.

DCMS - Department for Culture, Media and Sport
www.culture.gov.uk/heritage
Contact for a) checking the protection ['Listing'] status and b) for new Listing requests. State county, district and address in all enquiries. Printed sets of 'Lists' are available for public scrutiny at Country Record Offices, and a complete list is available through the National Monuments Record qv.

NIWM - National Inventory of War Memorials, Imperial War Museum
Contact: Lorraine Knight
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/niwm
Holds extensive national database and collections.

FOWM - Friends of War Memorials
www.war-memorials.com
Contact: Maggie Goodall
Active in case-work and advice. Joint EH/FOWM panel allocates conservation funds for war memorials in Conservation Areas.

AXIS
Database of contemporary artists.
www.axisartists.org.uk

Links to other web sites with examples of public sculpture from all the world can be found in our LINKS section.

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