We feel an affinity with anything wacky. Sway Tower was built by a retired judge between 1879 and 1885 in Sway in the New Forest. Andrew Peterson had been told to do so after a séance with the late Sir Christopher Wren. It is 218 feet high. He first built a prototype a mere 50 feet high. The Tower is the world's highest structure made entirely of non reinforced concrete.
Scraptors Paul Boswell,Rachel Macleay, Anthony Wilson create themed sculpture trails with scrap. 2011 " Beyond the Garden Gate" for the National Trust, Stourhead; 2013 at Magdalen Project Dorset; 2013 sculpture for Sustrans. 2014 Bird Henge, Wiltshire, supported by Cranborne Chase AONB;. 2015 project for Bournemouth City Council. 2015-2017, supported by Heritage Lottery Fund installations at Stourhead commemorating World 1 "Stourhead ant.wilson3@btinternet.com
https://scraptors.blogspot.com/p/miscellaneous-commissions-exhibitions.html
- Snow Exhibition January 2021
- Lunar module for the Salisbury Festival May 2019
- Promotion at Salisbury Cathedral 2018 for SSAFA the charity for the armed forces
- "Stourhead will never forget" sculpture trail 2015 to 2017 commemorating World War I
- Sculpture for Bournemouth Council Recycling Department 2015
- Bird Henge Wiltshire 2014
- Sustrans Project Torbay 2013
- Scraptorzoic Age at Magdalen eco farm Dorset 2013
- "Beyond the Garden Gate" sculpture trail for the National Trust at Stourhead 2011
- Scraptors' Sculpturemad garden
- Scraptors sculpturemad garden in the snow
- Pyramids
- Miscellany of commissions and exhibitions
- Projects with schools
Wednesday, 1 January 2014
Wacky stuff we like - Sway Tower
We feel an affinity with anything wacky. Sway Tower was built by a retired judge between 1879 and 1885 in Sway in the New Forest. Andrew Peterson had been told to do so after a séance with the late Sir Christopher Wren. It is 218 feet high. He first built a prototype a mere 50 feet high. The Tower is the world's highest structure made entirely of non reinforced concrete.
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