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| ArtistMaker: | MARKWORT, Wayne | 
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| TitleOfWork: | Marker stone at main entrance to Park | |
| DescriptionOfPhoto: | Phoenix carved on face | |
| DateOfCreation: | 2001 | |
| Dimensions: | 150 cm high x 100cm wide x 60 cm deep | |
| Medium: | stone | |
| Location: | Phoenix Park. (SE 446405) | |
| AtoZReference: | p.29 1G | |
| Postcode: | ||
| Street: | Phoenix Lane | |
| TownOrVillage: | Thurnscoe | |
| AreaInTown: | Thurnscoe East | |
| MetropolitanBorough: | Barnsley | |
| Photographer: | Dave Ball | |
| ImageCopyright: | Sheffield Hallam University | |
| AccessionNumber: | b076ia | |
| Description: Two entrance waymarkers in green sandstone. Each single stone is set upright into the grass. One near the Park car park entrance has a phoenix carved in relief facing Phoenix Lane. The rest of the stone has been left rough cut except for a sloping edge which has the words: PHOENIX / PARK carved in it. The other stone has elements from the park carved in relief on its two main faces. One shows a spiral, animals and trees, Dimensions: Map Entrance waymarker: 160 cm high x 100cm wide x 35 cm deep Phoenix Entrance waymarker: 150 cm high x 100cm wide x 60 cm deep Dinosaur Head: 90 cms high x 110 cms wide x 50 cms deep Snake Head: 130 cms high x 105 cms wide x 70 cms deep Turtle Heads: 110 cms high x 90 cms wide x 80 cms deep Red sandstone Yorkshire Rose??: 100 cms high x 100 cms wide x 50 cms deep Red sandstone Skate boarder/Cyclist: 135 cms high x 120 cms wide x 35 cms deep Commission: Project overseen by Groundworks; project manager Laura McBride. Comment: The waymarkers were designed to reflect activities in the new park, not its past history. The skateboarder was included because there were plans to include a Skateboard park on the site; now sited on the other side of Phoenix Lane. The Phoenix represents the name of the park, and the Rose is a reference to Yorkshire. The snake head was the product of another local competition for which local people were asked what a piece of sandstone most looked like. Markwort then carved the stone to turn it into the winning entry. |
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