Showing posts with label sculpture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sculpture. Show all posts
Saturday, 10 April 2021

Fish pour off the bridge

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  This stone sculpture on a bridge in Newcastle-under-Lyme above the Lyme Brook, is called 'The Return'. It vaguely amuses me, thou...
Wednesday, 30 September 2015

Goddess in Hednesford

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You come across this pediment sculpture, high up on a block of flats, if you walk along Anglesey Street in Hednesford. There is no real i...
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Tuesday, 21 April 2015

Squeezed church sculpture

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In Blore Ray church , there is this extraordinary sculpture group.  For some reason, the group is squeezed into a small side-chapel, whi...
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Sunday, 22 March 2015

Parliament's gift

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You'll find this little angel just outside the main door of Pattingham Church.  It's not a very distinguished piece, but it does ...
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Sunday, 15 March 2015

The gardens behind the amusements

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Alton Towers will be re-opening soon - and hordes of pleasure seekers will be pouring in from all over the country to enjoy the delights...
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Friday, 13 March 2015

Astrological quirks!

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It's a very odd thing: but there are some howlers of mistakes on the facade of the Wedgwood Institute in Burslem.  The frieze along...
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Tuesday, 10 March 2015

The spooky eyes have it

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This rather spooky piece of art appears to be watching one through very beady eyes - but then that's what the artist Hattie Coppard w...
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Sunday, 28 December 2014

Wonderful (if sentimental) tomb-sculpture

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The week between Christmas and New Year is when many of us take a 'brisk walk' in the countryside.  Out in the Peak District Ilam...
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Sunday, 24 August 2014

Jumble for a fantastical journey

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The flying car sculpture at Alton Towers Hotel by Peter Price demands to be seen from every angle, as something new appears on each side...
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Saturday, 21 June 2014

Staffs saint - by Staffs sculptor

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Saint Bertram was a Staffordshire saint and hermit, so it's fitting that he has been sculpted by a Staffordshire artist.   Harry Eve...
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Friday, 7 March 2014

Horrifying statue

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To me, this carving is one of the most horrifying sights in the whole county.  It stands in a secluded spot on the far side of the canal ...
Wednesday, 19 February 2014

Spring's green man

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This Green Man figure is to be found on the archway into Blithfield Hall .  He is a symbol of the natural world, and of Spring. It is...
Friday, 24 January 2014

The cavalier remembers

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This rather lively Cavalier adorns the facade of Patshull Hall.  He indicates, rather openly, the Royalist views of the former owners, th...
Sunday, 12 January 2014

Ancient dragons

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The Saxon history of the county has been under extra scrutiny since the discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard. But there is already a fa...
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Thursday, 7 November 2013

Bagnall lions

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Funny old autumn weather: long streaky sunlight, bright pale-blue skies and sharp air. These four lions in a garden in Bagnall seemed t...
Sunday, 22 September 2013

Fairy on the water

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There are over a dozen fairy sculptures to be found while walking round the lake on the Trentham Gardens site. They are in trees, behind...
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Thursday, 27 June 2013

Lady in a niche

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This charming sculpture is to be found tucked away in a niche, almost out of sight, in Keele Hall, the mansion that is the oldest part of...
Friday, 17 May 2013

Tunstall Shard sucks up light

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The Tunstall Shard is a spectacular piece of large modern sculpture standing slap bang in the shopping area of Tunstall. It’s made of st...
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Thursday, 9 May 2013

The loving care of bankers

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This rather touching sculpture of an ‘embryo man’ has a quite mundane interpretation. The man is sitting within the shape of a 50p coin...
Thursday, 3 January 2013

Sapphic Anna grieves in Lichfield

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This magnificent tomb is one of the first monuments you notice on walking into Lichfield Cathedral. It celebrates the father of the poet ...
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