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CITY CENTRE
Cambridge
Trail 2
Jesus
College
Sculpture Trails
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Trail 1
CITY CENTRE
Finding your way.... Included in these trails are 20th and 21st century
sculptures that are accessible in public places
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Christ’s throughout the central area of Cambridge city.
11 College
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Robinson 19 Clare 16
College College 14 Clare
College • Many sculptures are located in college grounds where
1 public access may be restricted in the pre-examination
18 15 2 season, mid April – mid June. There are other occasions
ClareHall 3 Emmanuel when colleges may be temporarily closed so it is advisable
College
4 to telephone the Porters’ Lodge prior to your visit.
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• Group visits should be arranged with Colleges in advance.
7 • Dogs are not permitted in college grounds.
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• Children must be accompanied by an adult.
• Collections change periodically. A number of sculptures
SidgwickSite are on loan so some works shown in the leaflet may not
FacultyBuildings be in place.
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For advice about places to stay and things to do visit
www.visitcambridge.org
Cambridge
Sculpture Trails
For more information please visit:
www.cambridgesculpturetrails.co.uk
E: info@cambridgesculpturetrails.co.uk
Design: www.cantellday.co.uk
A new and exciting way to discover modern
sculpture in Cambridge.
Three walking trails take you to outstanding pieces of
sculpture sited in historic and modern Cambridge.
Trail 1 South Cambridge 3: Peter Randall-Page 17: Phillip King
Trail 2 City centre Between the Lines 2007 Span 1967 | Painted Steel
Carved from a granite glacial 6: Antony Gormley 9: Wendy Taylor 12: Anthony Smith 14: Barbara Hepworth Sidgwick Site Faculty Buildings,
Trail 3 West Cambridge boulder Earthbound: Plant 2002 Jester 1994 | Bronze The Young Darwin 2009 | Bronze Divided Circle 1969 | Bronze Sidgwick Avenue. An early work
Fisher Square, off Corn Exchange Cast Iron Emmanuel College, St Andrew’s Situated in the Christ’s College’s Clare College, Trinity Lane. by the former President of the
Each leaflet covers a different tour around the city centre.
Street. A new piece outside the Situated at ground level in the Street. Sited in the Paddock Darwin Garden in New Court, This sculpture is sited in the Royal Academy now on loan to
More information about the sculpture and the artists is Grand Arcade. entrance to the Downing Site, Area. It is essential to enquire at this sculpture was commissioned Fellows’ Garden and is not the University.
available on our website www.cambridgesculpturetrails.org Downing Street, this installation Porters’ Lodge: 01223 334200 for the 200th anniversary of the visible from elsewhere. Access
is a human figure buried up side birth of Charles Darwin. to the garden is only possible
down with only the soles of the when the college is open to
feet showing. the public. It is essential to
enquire at the Porters’ Lodge:
Trail 2 begins at the Tourist Information Centre, which is close to the 01223 333200
centre of historic Cambridge. You will have the opportunity to view
over thirty sculptures sited both in civic settings and university grounds
from crocodiles, bears and bronze horses to works by sculptors such as
Henry Moore, Wendy Taylor and Michael Ayrton.
4: John Taylor & Mathew 13: Barry Flanagan 18: Helaine Blumenfeld
Although it might take over four hours to complete, there are plenty Bronze Horse 1983 | Bronze
Lane Sanderson 10: Antony Caro Flame 2004 | Patinated Bronze
of places for refreshments along the way. 7: Sculptor Unknown
The Corpus Clock 2008 Deposition 2000 | Rolled Steel Jesus College, Jesus Lane, Clare Hall (Entrance) Herschel
Alternatively the walk can be completed on separate days or can Gold plated stainless steel Bears 1904 Christ’s College, St. Andrew’s First Court. Jesus College Road. Within the College is an
be shortened by omitting sculptures 15-19 on the west side of the Clipsham Stone Street – sited in the ante-chapel. holds an impressive collection
On the corner of Bene’t Street extensive collection of art which
river. The collection in Jesus College (13) could be another visit. and King’s Parade. This Sedgwick Museum of Earth Inspired by Rembrandt’s picture of other sculpture in the may be seen by appointment
Sciences, Downing Site, Downing of the “Deposition from the grounds including: 15: Charles Jencks
mechanical clock is driven by a only. Contact Porters’ Lodge:
Street. The Museum is to the left Cross”, this sculpture can only • Claire Barclay (Glowing Promise 2007) DNA Double Helix 2005
mechanism in the shape of a 01223 332360
of the entrance from Downing be seen when Christ’s College Aluminium
giant grasshopper. The time is • Antonio Bellotti (Time’s Arrow 1996)
shown by blue LED lights Street and the bears are on the Chapel is open to the public. It • Richard Bray (Maple Three Piece 1991) Clare College, Memorial Court
moving round the clock face. external stair rails. Look out also is essential to enquire at the • Geoffrey Clarke (Call it Hadrian’s
Visible from Queen’s Road.
for bisons, an iguanodon, a sloth Porters’ Lodge: 01223 334900. Wall 1970) This sculpture was donated
and a mammoth on the exterior by Nobel Laureate Jim Watson
• Barry Flanagan (The Cricketer 1989)
of this building and stairway. to commemorate his discovery,
• Evelyn Herring (Mortal Man 1960)
together with Francis Crick, of
• Roger Hiorns (Untitled 2007)
the structure of DNA. Porters’
• Phillip King (Brake 1966) Lodge: 01223 333200
1: Lawrence Bradshaw • Bryan Kneale (Lucifer 2006)
possibly influenced by • Danny Lane (Empress 2001)
19: Ben Barrell
Gertrude Hermes 2: Michael Ayrton • Diane Maclean (Spine 1996)
Finback 2008
Doors of the Guildhall 1933 Talos 1950 | Bronze 11: Tim Harrisson • Eduardo Paolozzi (Daedalus on
Bronze Resin on a steel base
Bronze A Pattern of Life 2001 Wheels 1994)
Guildhall Street. 5: Eric Gill Portland Limestone • Keir Smith (Coastal Path 1986) Robinson College, Grange
Market Square. Commissioned Talos is the legendary guardian Cavendish Crocodile 1933 • William Turnbull (Head 1987) Road. This sculpture is visible
by C Cowles Voysey, the architect of Minoan Crete. This sculpture Engraving on Brick Sited in the third court of the from the entrance to the
of the Guildhall. The ten panels was erected on the completion 8: Sophie Dickens Christ’s College. Visible from • Alison Wilding (Melancholia 2003)
On the Mond Building. Visible 16: Henry Moore college. Two other sculptures
on the doors depict scenes from of the Lion Yard and Fisher Mother and Child 2008 the path. These outdoor sculptures
through the Old Cavendish Arch, Falling Warrior 1956 | Bronze by Philip de Konig and
rural life. Look out for the plinths House in 1973. Carved Wood can only be seen when Jesus
Free School Lane. “Crocodile” Christophe Gordon-Brown are
on either side of the entrance Situated at first floor level on the College is open to the public. Clare College, Memorial Court.
was the nickname of the eminent in the garden. Porters’ Lodge:
which include seahorses which exterior of the John Lewis Enquire at the Porters’ Lodge: Porters’ Lodge: 01223 333200
physicist Lord Rutherford who 01223 339100
also feature in the Cambridge Building on the corner of 01223 339339
worked in the Cavendish
City coat of arms. Downing Street.
Laboratory on this site.
