About Us
The Recording Archive began in 2006 with a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to create a digital database of public monuments and sculpture in Norfolk and Suffolk. It was set up under the auspices of the University of East Anglia and the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA), established in 1991 to further the cause of outdoor statues, sculpture and commemorative monuments. The PMSA publishes a series of volumes on Public Sculpture with Liverpool University Press and maintains the website at:
We continue to add new entries and photos of sculpture and monuments which are visible from the public highway. This includes monuments to famous men and women and racehorses, sculptural decoration on buildings, the ironwork gates of Sandringham, churchyard memorials, and the commissions across both counties which marked the millennium.
All photographs are © Norfolk & Suffolk Sculpture @ www.racns.co.uk. You are welcome to re-use and credit any photograph, for non-commercial purposes, except those not our copyright. Contact us for permission to reproduce and higher quality JPEGs and TIFFS.
The Website
There are three main parts:
- The Sculptures
- Sculpture Trails, a series of downloadable PDF files. Those for Norwich include a map, the remainder are linked to Google Maps, indicating the location of the sculpture on the trail.
- A map Showing the locations of sculptures. For urban areas (Norwich, Ipswich etc) the maps linked to the sculpture trails give precise locations.
There is also a Contact us page for queries about the archive or to contact the co-ordinator.
