Lion
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Location
| Street: | Tilgate Drive |
| Town: | Crawley |
| Parish: | Crawley |
| Council: | Crawley Borough Council |
| County: | West Sussex |
| Postcode: | RH10 |
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| Object setting: | Public Park |
| Access is: | Public |
| Location note: | By the entrance to the Nature Centre, Tilgate Park |
| In the AZ book: | West Sussex |
| Page: | 29 |
| Grid reference: | H1 |
| 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. | |
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Makers
| Name : | Christian Funnell |
| Role: | Sculptor |
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General Information
| Commissioned by: | Crawley Borough Council |
| Construction period: | 2000 |
| Installation date: | 2000 |
| Unveiling date: | 2000 |
| Work is: | Extant |
| Owner custodian: | Crawley Borough Council |
| Object listing: | Not listed |
| Description: | Faces north. A large lion sculpted from painted strips of steel. Attahed around the mane are steel cut out shapes of butterflies. The sculpture stands on two railway sleepers set into the ground. |
| Signatures: | Raised letters on upper surface of tail:
C.F. 00. |
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Classification
| Categories: | Sculptural, Free Standing, Animal |
| Object type1: | Sculpture |
| Subject type1: | Figurative |
| Subject subtype1: | Standing |
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Object Parts
| Part 1: | Lion |
| Material: | Steel, painted green. |
| Height (cm): | 165 |
| Width (cm): | 60 |
| Depth (cm): | 320 |
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Object Condition
| Overall condition: | Good |
| Risk assessment: | No known risk |
| Date of on-site inspection: | 26/02/2008 |
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History
| History: | One of the first of Crawley's 'Art in the Greenway' projects. From an image on the artist's website, it does not appear that the sculpture was origianlly painted green. |
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References
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Photographs
Author: Anthony McIntosh Copyright: Creative Commons |  Author: Anthony McIntosh Copyright: Creative Commons |
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