Sungazer Sculpture at Kingsdale School
SUNGAZER SCULPTURE AT KINGSDALE SCHOOL, ALLEYN PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376531
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Sungazer Sculpture at Kingsdale School
- Statutory Address:
- SUNGAZER SCULPTURE AT KINGSDALE SCHOOL, ALLEYN PARK
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- Date:
- 2000-07-31
- Reference:
- IOE01/01377/04
- Rights:
- © Mr Graham Turnill. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376531
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Sungazer Sculpture at Kingsdale School
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUNGAZER SCULPTURE AT KINGSDALE SCHOOL, ALLEYN PARK
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SUNGAZER SCULPTURE AT KINGSDALE SCHOOL, ALLEYN PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Southwark (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 33166 72104
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3372 ALLEYN PARK 636-1/16/887 (East side) 15/04/98 "Sungazer" sculpture at Kingsdale School
II
Sculpture. 1959 by William Turnbull, commissioned by the London County Council. Bronze, c. five feet in length, on a low plinth. The shape was cast from plaster into which corrugated paper had been pressed. An abstract representation of an eye, that has an organic fish-like quality also; it is long, narrow and torpedo shaped. In the late 1950s blindness became a theme in Turnbull's work. The fish-like form relates to his early work; its position on a narrow plinth is also pertinent to his later, totemic pieces. It is the only publicly sited work by Turnbull, and a particularly successful and thought-provoking piece.
Listing NGR: TQ3316672104
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470533
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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