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Brewing Kettle
County Suffolk   District Council St Edmundsbury 
Civil Parish or equivalent Bury St Edmunds  Town/Village* Bury St Edmunds 
Road Westgate Street 
Precise Location Outside the Greene King Visitors Centre, beside the road. 
OS Grid Ref TL857638  Postcode IP33 
Previous location(s) Formerly inside the Brewing House beside its current location. 
Setting beside the road, outside the brewery where it was once housed  Access Public 
Artist/Maker Role Qualifier
S. Briggs and Co. Ltd  Other   

Commissioned by

 Greene King 

Design & Constrn period

 1938 

Date of installing

 1984 

Exact date of unveiling

 06/06/1905 

Category
Abstract Animal Architectural
Commercial Commemorative Composite
Free Functional Funerary
Heraldic Military Natural
Non-Commemorative Performance Portable
Religious Roadside, Wayside Sculptural
Temporary, Mobile Other  

Object Type
Building Clock Tower Architectural
Coat of Arms Cross Fountain
Landscape Marker Medallion
Mural Panel Readymade
Relief Shaft Sculpture
Statue Street Furniture War Memorial
Other Object Sub Type:

Subject Type
Allegorical Mythological Pictorial
Figurative Non-figurative Portrait
Still-life Symbolic Other

Subject Sub Type
Bust Equestrian Full-length
Group Head Reclining
Seated Standing Torso
Part Material Dimension
seat  Oak  H: 50cm x Diameter:200cm 
Kettle Body  Copper  H: 80cm x Diameter: 160cm 
Flu  Copper  H: 140cm x diameter: 20cm 

Work is
Extant Not Sited Lost

Owner/Custodian

 Greene King 

Listing status
Grade I Grade II* Grade II Don't Know Not Listed

Surface Condition
Corrosion, Deterioration Accretions
Bird Guano Abrasions, cracks, splits
Biological growth Spalling, crumbling
Metallic staining Previous treatments
Other  
Detail:

Structural Condition
Armature exposed Broken or missing parts
Replaced parts Loose elements
Cracks, splits, breaks, holes Spalling, crumbling
Water collection Other
Detail:

Vandalism
Graffiti Structural damage Surface Damage
Detail:

Overall condition
Good Fair Poor

Risk
No Known Risk At Risk Immediate
Signatures/Marks S. Briggs and Co. Ltd, Burton on Trent 
Inscriptions  

Description (physical)

 Round Copper Brewing Kettle with wooden seat around the kettle body, large flu on top. the flu has some valve wheels on. There is a plate bearing the manufacturers name.  

Description (iconographical)

 The kettle was in use by Greene King from 1938 onwards, at the end of this kettle's life it was decided that it should be placed on public view as a symbol of what Greene King does, and a reminder to those passing of what happens behind the walls of the building behind. the seat was added in 1984 as somewhere for people to sit and admire both the brewing house and the Theatre Royal on the opposite side of the road. 

Photographs

 Date taken:  13/11/2006
Date logged: 

Photographed by:
David Hulks

On Site Inspection

 Date:  10/10/2007

Inspected by:
paul White

Sources and References

 Vicky O'Neil - Visitor services manager. 

Database

 Date entered:  27/10/2007

Data inputter:
Paul White