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Title*

Bronze plaques
County Norfolk   District Council Breckland Council 
Civil Parish or equivalent Attleborough  Town/Village* Attleborough 
Road High Street 
Precise Location On railings at entrance to Sainsbury's 
OS Grid Ref TM045953  Postcode NR17 
Previous location(s)  
Setting Roadside  Access Public 
Artist/Maker Role Qualifier
Sally Adams  Designer(s)   
Stanley Bragg Partnership  Architect(s)   

Commissioned by

 Sainsbury's 

Design & Constrn period

 ca. 1998 

Date of installing

  

Exact date of unveiling

 4th December 1998 

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: Bronze plaques

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
Plaques  Bronze  Ea. H. & W. 40 cms. 

Work is
Extant Not Sited Lost

Owner/Custodian

 Sainsbury's 

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  
Inscriptions Panel with turkey feet is inscribed: LONDON 85 MILES and initials (very small) LHS (left hand side). The designer was a local - Sally Adams (email) from artist) - and the architects a commercial firm, the Stanley Bragg Partnership, Colchester. 

Description (physical)

 Sally Adams has described the commission and the panels: The architects contacted the Sainsbury Centre to ask for an artist who worked in metal, and they in turn asked local artist John Foster (now deceased). Whilst John did co-ordinate the casting and installation, he asked me to design and sculpt the originals in clay, as he did not do that sort of sculpting. 

Description (iconographical)

 There was a brief that the plaques should somehow reflect surroundings. So I designed 4 themes as follows: 1)The abstract of apple and barrel as reference to Attleboroughs cider making. 2)The abstract of hayfork and scythe as reference to local farming. 3) The abstract of Turkey imprints & mileage to London as reference to Turkey farming and that they were literally walked to london. (these imprints were actually taken by myself by pressing live turkey feet into clay!) & finally 4) This was the most abstract of all & probably the reason why it is incorrectly listed as a reference to the motor trade. This plaque simply represents the architecture of this particular branch of Sainsburys. If you look at the building it has large curved girders that form the entrance facade. This plaque shows a section of the girder 

Photographs

 Date taken:  16/11/2007
Date logged:  29/1/2008

Photographed by:
Anna Meek

On Site Inspection

 Date:  16/11/2007

Inspected by:
Anna Meek

Sources and References

 Information from Sainsbury's Customer Service Department; email from Sally Adams Entry updated: 18/10/2012 

Database

 Date entered:  28/1/2008

Data inputter:
Richard Cocke