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Italian Garden, Altar and Font

near Newbury, Berkshire, UK 2018

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The site is in the garden of a house designed by Inigo Jones where there was once a church designed by Sir Thomas Vanburgh. All that now remains of the church are the red brick footings. These now frame a newly created Italian garden.

I was commissioned to create two water sculptures, representing at one end an altar and at the other a font. These are linked by two shallow rills that flow down the ‘nave’ from altar to font.

It has been a wonderful opportunity to be able to design and coordinate the bronze and stone hardscape with water movement throughout the scheme.

See the video here

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