Caldicot Cross

1995

A town cross is a gathering place, a focus for human activity and a symbol of the life of the community. The actual brief was to create a contemporary work of art as a focal point to what had become a rather un-assuming pedestrianisation scheme, but it was also apparent that there was a wish to have a more accessible war memorial than the one in the church. I offered to combine the two – a contemporary take on a Celtic cross with the names of the war dead wrapped around the base.

Standing 5m high, the sculpture is made up of thousands of individually shaped thin slates. The sculpture has proved a popular feature of the town over the years. It has been incorporated into the secondary school badge, featured in regional papers as a symbol for Remembrance Day and become the catalyst for a very sympathetic re-design of the surrounding area by landscape architects Roberts Limbrick.

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