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A Conversation with Oscar Wilde

Maggi Hambling's Wilde rising out of a granite coffin behind St Martin-in-the-Fields, inviting you to sit and talk.

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Photo by Alan Stanton, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Unveiled in 1998 on the anniversary of his death, Wilde's head and hand, cigarette in the fingers, rise from a green granite sarcophagus that doubles as a bench, so that the passer-by sits at the level of his face; the cigarette has been broken off and replaced many times. Along the side is cut his line from Lady Windermere's Fan: 'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars'. It stands in Adelaide Street, between the church and the Strand.

Where
Adelaide Street, WC2N 4HZ
Nearest station
Charing Cross · 1 min walk

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