'Single Form (Memorial)', on southern side of boating lake, Battersea Park, London Borough of Wandsworth is a Grade II* listed building in the Wandsworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 2016. Sculpture. 2 related planning applications.

'Single Form (Memorial)', on southern side of boating lake, Battersea Park, London Borough of Wandsworth

WRENN ID
pitched-bronze-root
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Wandsworth
Constituency
Battersea MP: Marsha De Cordova (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 January 2016
Type
Sculpture
Address
'Single Form (Memorial)', on southern side of boating lake, Battersea Park, London Borough of Wandsworth, South of Boating Lake, Sw11, SW11 4NJ
OS grid reference
TQ 283 769
Coordinates
51.47736, -0.15282
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

'Single Form (Memorial)' is a sculpture created by Barbara Hepworth between October 1961 and February 1962, with this edition cast from October 1963 to June 1964 for installation at Battersea Park in London. The sculpture is made of bronze and stands on a bronze self-base. In front of it, there is a sandstone raked block that has an inscribed bronze plaque.

The sculpture itself is a freestanding, smooth-edged, flattened ovoid shape with a rippled surface and a circular opening located off-centre near the top. It is positioned on grass by the southern edge of the boating lake in Battersea Park. The sculpture measures 3.12 meters in height, 2 meters in width, and 25.4 centimeters in depth. The self-base, which is part of the sculpture, is a shallow rectangular shape measuring 8 centimeters in height, 1.22 meters in width, and 91 centimeters in depth.

The self-base features a handwritten signature and date by Hepworth on its upper surface, located on the rear north-western face of the sculpture, reading: Barbara Hepworth/Oct 1961-Feb 1962. Additionally, there is a founder's mark incised on the same rear face of the self-base, stating: Morris/Singer.

In front of the southern face of the sculpture, the rectangular raked block holds a fixed plaque inscribed in white capital letters with the following text:

SINGLE FORM/1961-62/DEDICATED TO/DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD/BY/BARBARA HEPWORTH.

Local climate

'Single Form (Memorial)', on southern side of boating lake, Battersea Park, London Borough of Wandsworth 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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