| Monument Name: | Statue of Harry Kane |
| Location: | Peter May Sports Centre, Walthamstow, London |
| Designer: | Sculpture Machine[1] |
| Type: | Statue |
| Begin: | 2019 |
| Complete: | 2020 |
A statue of the footballer Harry Kane, completed in 2020, was unveiled in Walthamstow, London, in November 2024.
The statue was commissioned when Kane was a player with the north London team Tottenham Hotspur. It shows him seated on a bench with a football on his knee.[2]
The work was funded by Waltham Forest Council at a cost of £7,200 in 2019 and 2020.[2] Several locations were explored for the statue and it remained in storage while a location could be agreed upon. It was originally to be sited at Chingford railway station, but this was rejected following a risk assessment by Transport for London.[2] A plan to place it in Ridgeway Park was also rejected.[2] [3]
The first pictures of the statue were obtained by the street newspaper The Big Issue in 2024. The images were met with some criticism with some questioning whether a footballer should be sitting on a bench in the way portrayed, while others made fun of its brown, chocolate-like appearance.[4]
The statue, along with a mural, were finally unveiled at the Peter May Sports Centre in Walthamstow on 18 November 2024. Kane began playing here as a five-year-old for Ridgeway Rovers.[5] [6]