Henry Poole

Two Caryatids sculpture by Henry Poole, stood in the New Kent Road.

Henry Poole (28 January 1873 — 15 August 1928) was a British architectural sculptor.

He studied at the Lambeth School of Art in 1888; and from 26 January 1892 under Harry Bates ARA and George Frederic Watts RA at the Royal Academy Schools. Poole was elected ARA 22 April 1920 and became a full RA in 1927, shortly before his death. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1894 – 1928;

Works Deptford Town Hall (1903) Westminster Central Hall (1905–1911) Charity, sculpture group above the entrance to the former Bethnal Green Town Hall, (1910) Colnaghi's, New Bond Street (1912) Relief panels for the Public Library and Baths, Great Smith Street, (1892–1893) Edward VII statue and memorial fountains, with Edwin Rickards, Bristol (1912) Equestrian statue of Field Marshal Earl Roberts VC, (1916) in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow, after an original design by Harry Bates Sculptures for the Chapel of St Michael and St George, St Paul's Cathedral Interior decoration of The Black Friar public house, Queen Victoria Street, London Statue of Captain Albert Ball, Nottingham Castle (1921) War memorial, Evesham, Worcestershire (1921) War memorial, Pudsey, West Yorks (1922) War memorial, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire (1920) Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent, with Sir Robert Lorimer, (1924) Plymouth Naval Memorial with Sir Robert Lorimer, (1924) Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Southsea Common, with Sir Robert Lorimer, (1924) Nottingham High School war memorial