Lion
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Location
Street: | Tilgate Drive |
Town: | Crawley |
Parish: | Crawley |
Council: | Crawley Borough Council |
County: | West Sussex |
Postcode: | RH10 |
Location on Google Map | |
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 |
Author: Anthony McIntosh Copyright: Creative Commons | Author: Anthony McIntosh Copyright: Creative Commons |
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