DELIGHT SCULPTURE IN ABBEY WOOD PARK

DELIGHT SCULPTURE IN ABBEY WOOD PARK, FINCHDALE ROAD SE2

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376744
Date first listed:: 15-Apr-1998
List Entry Name:: DELIGHT SCULPTURE IN ABBEY WOOD PARK
Statutory Address:: DELIGHT SCULPTURE IN ABBEY WOOD PARK, FINCHDALE ROAD SE2

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376744
Date first listed:: 15-Apr-1998
List Entry Name:: DELIGHT SCULPTURE IN ABBEY WOOD PARK
Statutory Address 1:: DELIGHT SCULPTURE IN ABBEY WOOD PARK, FINCHDALE ROAD SE2

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: DELIGHT SCULPTURE IN ABBEY WOOD PARK, FINCHDALE ROAD SE2

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Greenwich (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 46409 79374

Details

TQ 4679 FINCHALE ROAD, SE2 (north side)

786/11/10086 'Delight' sculpture in Abbey Wood Park

II

Sculpture. 1962-7 by A H Gerrard. Portland stone blocks on brick and concrete back, plinth and cornice, the brick plinth clad with slate panels. A rectangular frieze c.27 ft long, the blocks carved in relief pattern of semi-abstract Cubist dancing figures; these most clearly seen to right. The lines of the sculpture contrast with the underlying grid of the blocks. The central slate carved with the title and sculptor of the piece. Gerrard was a little-known artist and teacher, who specialised in this idiosyncratic relief carving. This is his largest and most significant work.

Listing NGR: TQ4640979374

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Legacy System number:: 469117
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.