Four relief panels
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Location
| Street: | Marine Parade |
| Town: | Worthing |
| Parish: | Worthing |
| Council: | Adur District Council |
| County: | West Sussex |
| Postcode: | BN11 |
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| Object setting: | On building |
| Access is: | Public |
| Location note: | Right hand wall of the Denton Lounge on the Pier |
| In the AZ book: | West Sussex |
| Page: | 171 |
| Grid reference: | H3 |
| The A-Z books used are A-Z East Sussex and A-Z West Sussex (Editions 1A 2005). Geographers' A-Z Map Company Ltd. Sevenoaks. | |
| OS Reference: | TQ1402 |
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Makers
| Name : | Laurence Henderson Bradshaw |
| Role: | Sculptor |
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General Information
| Construction period: | 1959-1960 |
| Installation date: | 1960 ca. |
| Work is: | Extant |
| Owner custodian: | Worthing Borough Council |
| Object listing: | Not listed |
| Building listing: | II |
| Listing date: | 30/07/1975 |
| Description: | Four wall-mounted panels, with incised decoration. Two end panels same dolphin and trident motif. Second panel profile head of Minerva; third panel profile head of Neptune. |
| Iconographical description: | Minerva was the Roman goddess of wisdom and mental activities, and also the protective deity of the arts and crafts, who granted talents to mankind. She came to be identified with Athena, her Greek counterpart. Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) is the god of the sea in Roman mythology. He was a relative of Ceres. He is analogous but not identical to the god Poseidon of Greek mythology. The Roman conception of Neptune owed a great deal to the Etruscan god Nethuns. Neptune was associated as well with fresh water, as opposed to Oceanus, god of the world-ocean. Like Poseidon, Neptune was also worshipped by the Romans as a horse god, under the name Neptune Equester, patron of horse-racing. Neptune was the Roman god of the sea, wed to Salacia, a goddess of salt water, who corresponded to Amphitrite. Neptune was the Roman counterpart of Poseidon. |
| Signatures: | LAWRENCE BRADSHAW on the two central panels at the bottom right hand corner (date indecipherable).. |
| Inscription: | MINERVA Along the right hand side of the panel, third from left, inscribed: NEPTUNE |
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Classification
| Categories: | Composite, Architectural, Animal, Sculptural |
| Object type1: | Relief |
| Object type2: | Panel |
| Subject type1: | Pictorial |
| Subject subtype1: | Head |
| Subject type2: | Mythological |
| Subject subtype1: | Group |
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Object Parts
| Part 1: | 4 reliefs (each) |
| Material: | Concrete |
| Height (cm): | 153 |
| Width (cm): | 132 |
| Depth (cm): | 10 |
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Object Condition
| Overall condition: | Fair |
| Risk assessment: | No known risk |
| Condition 1 of type: | Surface |
| Condition 1: | Abrasions, cracks, splits |
| Condition 2: | Biological growth |
| More details: | Cracks (and repair) on bottom right hand corner of third panel (Neptune).On the third panel, previous repairs have obscured the title. |
| Condition 2 of type: | Structural |
| More details: | Restored late 2008 / early 2009 |
| Date of on-site inspection: | 16/11/2007 |
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History
| History: | Laurence Henderson Bradshaw Archive (1899-1978) Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Laurence Henderson Bradshaw was born in April 1899 at Wallasey. He was a sculptor, engraver and painter. Bradshaw was involved with the British Soviet Friendship Society, the Royal Society of British Sculptors, and was elected Master of the Art Workers Guild, 1958. He was the official war artist for the Norwegian government in World War Two and was rewarded for his contribution to the arts with a civil list pension from the British government. Laurence Bradshaw’s major, but also the most controversial work, is the Karl Marx Memorial of 1956. He also made many portrait busts and carried out public commissions, particularly in conjunction with architects. His designs for theatre scenery are housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum. The material in the archive was presented by Mrs Eileen Bradshaw, Lawrence Bradshaw’s widow, in October 1994. There have been a number of small additions to the archive up to August 1995, including the Karl Marx Memorial maquette. The archive now includes correspondence, drawings, photographs, newspaper cuttings, and other printed material relating to his work. Architect of Denton Lounge was John Brandon Jones (1908-1999), who worked with Charles Cowles Voysey (and Bradshaw) on Worthing Town Hall and Assembly Hall 1933-4 and took over his architectural practice in 1954 (Obituary, Alan Powers, The Independent 11 May 1999) Voysey designed the White Rock, Pavilion, Hastings in 1927. Laurence Bradshaw archive, Henry Moore Institutue,Leeds Box of papers BR/P1 18. 3 PHOTOS MINERVA (ON BACK ‘WORTHING PAVILLION (SIC) ONE OF FOUR PANELS 1960 ARCH. BRANDON-JONES AND 2 FISH/TRIDENTS’ No mention of the reliefs in accounts of the opening of the Denton Lounge in 1959, so they may have been added later: Worthing Gazette July 22, 1959 p.1 “Mayor Will Open New Lounge at Noon’ opening ceremony 12 noon 31st July Worthing gazette July 29, 1959 p.6 ‘Denton Lounge is Ready for Opening’ Architects Brandon-Jones, Ashton and Broadbent A/ARIBA 2 Redington Road, London N3 Worthing Gazette August 5, 1959, p.3 ‘Denton Lounge Opened’ p.6 ‘The Mayor Opens Denton Lounge’ Sources: Potter, Susan and Wilcox, Tim (eds), Public Art in West Sussex, West Sussex County Council, 1995, p. 24 Laurence Bradshaw archive, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Interview with Mrs Eileen Bradshaw, Braintree, Essex 4.10.08 Lindey, Christine, ‘The Man who Moulded Marx’ The Morning Star, 4 April 2007, p.9 |
| Hard archive file: | Yes |
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References
| Source 1 : | |
| Title: | Sculpture of Laurence Bradshaw 1917-1991 |
| Type: | Archive |
| Location: | Henry Moore Institute Archive |
| Catalogue reference: | 53.1994 |
| Source 2 : | |
| Title: | 'Public Art in West Sussex' |
| Type: | Book |
| Author: | Potter, Susan and Wilcox, Tim (eds) |
| Date: | 00/00/1995 |
| Page: | 24 |
| Publisher: | West Sussex County Council |
| Source 3 : | |
| Title: | 'A Dictionary of Mythologies' |
| Type: | Book |
| Author: | Shapiro, Max S and Hendricks, Rhoda A. |
| Date: | 00/00/1981 |
| Publisher: | Granada Publishing Ltd.. St. Albans. |
Further information: | |
| http://www.tween.org/IgorMikhailusenko.html | |
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Photographs
Date: 16/11/2007 Author: Anthony McIntosh and Jill Seddon Copyright: Creative Commons |  Date: 16/11/2007 Author: Anthony McIntosh and Jill Seddon Copyright: Creative Commons |
 Date: 16/11/2007 Author: Anthony McIntosh and Jill Seddon Copyright: Creative Commons |  Date: 16/11/2007 Author: Anthony McIntosh and Jill Seddon Copyright: Creative Commons |
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