tarboat's photos with the keyword: sculpture

In the nineteenth century it was a regular occurrence for statues, fountains and clocks to be erected by public subscription to commemorate particular events or people. The people tended to be rather better off than the poor devils who were expected to contribute to their glorification. This fountain in Heckmondwike gives double value as it is topped off with a clock! It commemorates the March 1863 wedding of the Prince of Wales to Princess Alexandra of Denmark. I presume that the faces carved in Yorkshire Stone are meant to represent the happy couple.

A stone face watching over the doorway to the former Brookfield Hotel on Wellington Road South, Stockport. It's little details such as this that are lacking from modern buildings.

A little bit of stone sculpture guarding the doorway to the former Brookfield Hotel on Wellington Road South, Stockport.

Cooling towers at the Harbin snow festival.

A couple of the exhibits at the Harbin snow festival. A huge amount of work has clearly gone into creating these enormous sculptures. This was much less commercialised than the ice festival a few kilometres away.

The mercat (or market) cross in Haddington is topped with this goat which sports a fine set of broze horns. The structure can be seen to be dated 1880.

Stone decoration above the door on S. Hugh's Chambers on Corporation Street in Lincoln. The netting seems to be losing the battle with the pigeons judging by the mess on the walls.

The Brandenburg Gate in the rain.

This character keeps watch from above the shops in Commercial Streel, Newport.

Kelpie - a water spirit of Scottish folklore, typically taking the form of a horse and reputed to delight in the drowning of travellers. The Kelpies are horse-head sculptures standing next to the extension of the Forth and Clyde Canal. The sculptures were designed by Andy Scott and were completed in October 2013. They form a gateway at the eastern entrance to the Forth and Clyde Canal, and the new canal extension built as part of The Helix land transformation project. The Kelpies are a monument to horse powered heritage across Scotland. Built of structural steel with a stainless steel cladding, The Kelpies are 30 metres high and weigh 300 tonnes each and form the largest equine sculpture in the world. The site has become a major tourist attraction and was very busy when I visited. The various tea rooms were very welcome after walking down from Falkirk.

Sculpture at the office entrance at the Hope Works of Hope Construction Materials.

This sculpture and rail wagon stand beside the Llangollen Canal at Froncysyllte as a reminder of the local lime industry. The nearby Froncysyllte kilns were supplied from the Pen-y-graig quarries to the south-west. Stone was brought down a 2ft gauge self-acting incline. The works was formerly worked by the Chirk Castle Lime & Stone Co Ltd and later by Harry Williams & Son. In 1958 the incline was closed and lifted and the quarries closed by 1965.

Sculpture outside the steelworks at Florange. ArcelorMittal have closed the blast furnaces at this site but retained the mills which now roll billets brought from the Tata plant at Scunthorpe in the United Kingdom.

This sculpture watches over the door into the Natwest Bank on Warrington St, Ashton-under-Lyne. I am not sure what it is supposed to be. It looks a bit like a lion and at first I wondered if it was an otter!

The old Manchester Fish Market dates from 1873 and has now been developed internally for modern apartments. The external walls survive and gables on High St have four tympana in which are scenes in stone of fishing activities by sculptor Henry Bonehill. The architects were Speakman, Son and Hickson.

I had a good mooch around Leek today and really enjoyed the wealth of interesting and whimsical architecture to be found around the town. This keystone is in the entrance arch to a former stables in Leonard St. The adjacent buildings dated from the 1880s and this is almost certainly contemporary.

Bathing cap and armbands at Anthony Gormley's 'Another Place' on Crosby beach.

A particularly appealing feature of the High Lane Limekiln is this carved keystone in the arch of the draw hole.