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Sculpture Trail -Walk 2
Description: This walk gives a fascinating tour of some 30 public statues and
sculptures, many of them hidden from public gaze. The walk starts
on the City Centre through Queen Square to Castle Park, along the
harbour to Millennium Square and on to College Green returning
to the City Centre.
Length: Approx. 2½ miles (2 to 2.5 hours).
Refreshments: Numerous cafés and pubs on route.
Transport: Buses to City Centre.
The walk starts at the Statue of Walk towards the B (b) Samuel Plimsoll, M.P. for Derby,
Neptune A on the City Centre. This harbour, noting the five originator of the load line known as the
originally stood at the head of St bronze plaques adjoining Plimsoll Line on ships, born at 9, Colston
Augustine’s Reach on the Harbourside the five seats on the Avenue 1824, died 1898. Strangely, in
but was re sited in 1999. Cast in lead by right hand side of the his native city, the seaman’s canvas shoe,
the Bristol founder John Rendall in 1723. City Centre walkway. also named after him, is called a ‘dap’
Originally conceived as an ornamental
flourish to a new water supply in Temple instead.
B (a) Replica of the plaque at Bristol
Street, the figure, standing on the back of B (c) John Cabot and son Sebastian
Basin, New York, which commemorates
a dolphin, looks suitably hoary-bearded Cabot sailing from Bristol on the Matthew
the Bristol bomb rubble, used as ships’
and patriarchal, although the plump
ballast to cross the Atlantic, finally used to discover America in 1497.
sleekness of his potbelly suggests the
laxity of a voluptuary rather than the as landfill to form the basin. B (d) Centenary of 100 years of the Port
moody energy of the sea king. of Bristol Authority 1848-1948.
B (e) Replica plaque of town trail named Sabrina was the Roman name for the Continue to cross Prince
in honour of John Cabot who landed at River Severn. Water flows from the Street and into the
Cape Cod, Nova Scotia, Canada on 24th goddess head and the central boy centre of Queen Square.
June 1497. supporter to overflow from the shell
into the granite basin. G The statue of William III, cast in brass
Cross City Centre to
by John Michael Rysbrack (1736), a
Narrow Quay Walk around to the front
splendid Grade 1 equestrian statue of the
of Broad Quay House.
C King George V Memorial (1981) Red King in Roman heroic style uniform which
originally cost the Bristol Whigs some
brick Arch with lion mask water spout Look through the glazed entrance to view
The Pigeons E , wired sculpture by £1,800, a small fortune in 1736! It is
designed and cast in aluminium by Derek
Thomas Hill (1998) hanging from the believed Rysbrack based his design on
Carr. On other side Portland stone figures
foyer ceiling. On the building at first floor the statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome.
of a farmer and a coal miner (circa 1903)
decoration from the CWS offices formerly level are 15 Ceramic Panels F (1980) by Turn left to the corner
on the site of the nearby Broad Quay Phillippa Threlfall and Kennedy Collings of Queens Square, cross
which depict the industry and commerce Queen Charlotte Street
house.
of Bristol. and follow Queen Square
Continue to the Avenue to Welsh Back.
courtyard on the Turn left.
waterfront side of
Broad Quay House. H The Merchant Seaman’s Memorial
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(2001) granite and bronze by David
The Apotheosis of Sabrina, bronze
Backhouse commemorates the many
fountain by Gerald Laing (1980). The
dramatic goddess of the River seamen’s lives lost at sea in war and
Severn and her youthful supporters in peace.
are almost hidden from public view!
At the end of the Back, K Beside the Still Waters (1993) by Peter Follow the harbourside
turn right and cross the Randell-Page, tranquil linear ponds with walkway, over the
approach to Bristol Kilkenny limestone, pineapple shaped footbridge to the road
Bridge into Castle Park. water fountains at each end. bridge. Up the steps,
turn right across bridge
Take diagonal path towards Turn right to a group of along Counterslip. Cross
Wine Street and go under silver birch trees and road to Fire Station.
the footbridge, left. plaques which
commemorate the 50th M Firefighter Memorial (2003) bronze
I Line from Within (1993), sand cast and anniversary of the D-Day statue on stone plinth by Stephen
landing in Normandy in
patinated bronze by Ann Christopher RA Joyce commissioned by Avon Fire
1944. On your left is
is an upright steel structure with a vertical Brigade as memorial to all fire fighters
Fish.
slot. Suggesting a castle gate rising from in Avon and the World who died
the foundations of the forgotten city L Fish (1993) by Kate Malone a very saving others.
below.
attractive bronze cast drinking Fountain
Cross Victoria Street,
Continue along left hand with brick and terracotta tiles. It echoes
right, then first left into
side of St Peter’s Church several themes in Bristol’s past. A stylised
St Thomas Street. and
chunk of Bristol Castle marks the history first right into Thomas
J Throne (1993) by Rachel Fenner, a of its site. A boat records the link with the Lane. Cross Redcliffe
Normandy limestone sculpture, which sea and the fish spouting water remind Street to harbourside.
invites self-coronation. The park takes its drinkers how the hunt for cod led to
name from the Norman occupation of the Bristolians discovering the N Exploration (1991) obelisk in stone and
original castle. new world. ceramics mounted by a steel sphere by
Phillippa Threlfall, Kennedy Collings and
James Blunt. In the sixteenth century, Fire is the figure emerging from the Walk through to Anchor
Martin Frobisher brought back from an flames and Water is the swimming figure. Square.
exploratory voyage an Eskimo family
which entertained the crowd by hunting Cross road and turn right R Beetle sculpture (2000) bronze on
duck in a kayak on the Back. over bridge, turn left into limestone pedestal by Nicola Hicks. The
The Grove, left at Prince large insect is based on a rhinoceros
Turn left and continue Street. Right to Narrow
along harbourside beetle, a scarabaeid, with one or more
Quay.
walkway past the ‘blue horns, which can support up to 850 times
helter-skelter’ P John Cabot (1986) by Stephen
its own weight.
architectural feature Joyce. This bronze statue set in the
which was originally a
cobbles commemorates when he
flour chute in the
came to Bristol from Venice in 1495
adjoining warehouse.
and left Bristol to discover
When you can follow
the waterfront no Newfoundland.
further, follow the same
line along Redcliffe Backs Turn right and continue
to Redcliffe Way. along Narrow Quay to
cross...
O Phoenix and the four elements (1985)
Q Pero’s Bridge (1998) stainless steel by
bronze by John Doubleday. Earth is the
Eillis O’Connell is named after an African
pregnant figure emerging from the clay,
slave servant who lived and died in
Air is seen against the disc of the sun,
eighteenth century Bristol.
Continue into Millennium 1718), a Quaker, oversaw the founding of Cross Anchor Road and
Square and go clockwise. Pennsylvania, named to honour his father up Trinity Steps to the
of the same name. right.
S Aquarena Water Sculpture (2000) by
X Cary Grant (2001) bronze by Graham
William Pye is a continuous flowing water Z The Refugee (1980) a smooth resin
Ibbeson The Hollywood film star was
feature with stainless steel columns and bronze statue by Norma Blake, viewed on
born in Bristol in 1904 as Archibald
black marble pools of water cascading left hand side, through gate into the
Leech in Hughenden Road, Horfield. He
into each other. Cathedral Garden. Norma, a Holocaust
was expelled at the age of fourteen from
survivor, dedicated the statue to all
T Bill and Bob dogs playing in pool
Fairfield School, Montpelier. The statue
victims of racial persecution.
was unveiled by his widow on the 7th
(2000). Painted bronze by Cathie
December 2001, exactly 70 years from Continue to College
Pilkington
when he changed his name to Cary Green and go round
U William Tyndale (2000) bronze by Grant. anticlockwise.
Lawrence Holoscener. Tyndale was born
Leave Square to the left AA Queen Victoria (1888) Carrara marble
in Gloucestershire, translated the New
hand side of Explore on a Portland stone pedestal with bronze
Testament from Greek into English and Bristol building to
plaques by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm to
was burnt to death in Belguim in 1536. Anchor Road.
commemorate the fiftieth year of her
V Thomas Chatterton (2000) bronze also reign.
Y Small Worlds (2000) cement with
by Lawrence Holoscener. Chatterton ,the
glass fibre by Simon Thomas celebrates, BB Bristol Unicorns (1950) two cast
boy poet, died in 1770 aged 17 after
the Bristol born, physicist Paul Dirac who bronze and gilded sculptures by David
taking arsenic.
was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics McFall on the roof of the Council House.
W William Penn (2000) bronze also by in1933. Unicorns first appeared on the city’s
Lawrence Holoscener. Penn (1644 to common seal in 1569.
CC Elizabethan Seaman (1956) Portland Continue behind the Continue along to
stone by Sir Charles Wheeler R A in the Council House along Frog Lewin’s Mead. Take the
centre of the Council House. The City Lane, under the bridge and crossing behind you to
Council maintain that it does not up Frogmore Street and the Lewins Mead traffic
represent John Cabot. Trenchard Street. Cross island where there is a
Colston street. statue of Samuel
DD Raja Ram Mohun Roy (1997) bronze Morley. Two other
by Niranjan Pradhan. Roy, an Indian FF Three Kings of Cologne (1967) by eminent men with Bristol
humanist and religious reformer, died in Ernest Pascoe in the early sixteenth connections, Edmund
Bristol of meningitis in 1833. century niches of the Chapel adjoining Burke and Edward
Fosters Almshouses. Colston, have statues on
Leave College Green by the Centre.
Deanery Road. Right into
College Street (noting Right down the steep
Christmas Steps, left Walk devised by Neil Burlton, Bristol
plaque to William Friese- Ramblers, with acknowledgement to
Green on the back wall to Rupert Street.
the references from Douglas Merritt’s
of the Council House)
GG book ‘Sculpture in Bristol’
to cross St George’s Cloaked Horseman (1984) bronze
Road through gateway on by David Backhouse. The sculptor
right hand side of Brunel imagined the horseman ready to enter
House to rear courtyard. the City by St John’s Arch on the
opposite side of the road.
EE Horse and Man (1984) in resin and
bronze by Stephen Joyce, which evokes
the site of a nineteenth century Bristol
horse market.
G William III R Beetle