Sculpture

NOTES: Sanssouci was the summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, built in 1745-1747 to designs by the Prussian aristocrat and architect, Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdoff. The creation of the Park, organised around several buildings, began soon after the completion of the palace.

NOTES: These two abstract figures in blue limestone were sculpted in 1950-1951 by Barbara Hepworth for the Festival of Britain, South Bank, London, where it was set outside the Dome of Discovery. It was acquired by the Harlow Arts Trust and resited here in 1953.

NOTES: Built as the headquarters for the British Medical Association, this building served as the High Commission of Southern Rhodesia from 1923 until the Rhodesian Unilateral Declaration of Independence on November 11, 1965. It remained a representative office until the colony gained independence as Zimbabwe in 1980 and has since been known as Zimbabwe House. The 'Ages of Man' sculptures by Jacob Epstein, the sculptor's first major commission in England, were carved in situ. The mutilation of the statues occurred in the 1930s when possibly dangerous projecting features were hacked-off after pieces fell from one of the statues.

NOTES: This banking hall served its original purpose until 1982 when it was restored and converted into an assembly room for the National Westminster Bank and became known as the Gibson Hall.