Awakening Sculpture, Roper's Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 2020. Sculpture.

Awakening Sculpture, Roper's Garden

WRENN ID
south-portal-linden
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kensington and Chelsea
Constituency
Chelsea and Fulham MP: Ben Coleman (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 August 2020
Type
Sculpture
Address
Awakening Sculpture, Roper's Garden, Roper's Gardens, Danvers Street, Petyt Place, Old Church Street and Chelsea Embankment, London, SW3 5AX
OS grid reference
TQ 270 775
Coordinates
51.48275, -0.1718
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Awakening Sculpture is a bronze figurative sculpture created by G Ledward in 1915, cast between 1922 and 1923, and installed in 1964 as part of Roper's Garden, which was designed by Peter Shepheard of Bridgwater, Shepheard & Epstein.

The sculpture is fixed to a cement pedestal with a cement planter border. It features a female nude with arms outstretched, rendered in a naturalistic style. The sculpture stands 1.85 meters tall and is mounted on a slender pedestal, bringing the total height to approximately 3 meters. Surrounding the sculpture is a raised, square cement planter measuring around 1.5 by 1.5 meters, which creates a flowerbed around the pedestal and integrates the sculpture into the overall garden design. The representational figure contrasts with Jacob Epstein's abstract female figure, which is a fragment of an unfinished relief located on the east side of Roper's Garden since 1972.

Local climate

Awakening Sculpture, Roper's Garden sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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