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. This was completed by February 2008, when the database with just under seven hundred entries and over three thousand photographs was deposited at the Norfolk Record Office on the Norfolk County Council site, Martineau Lane, Norwich.
Public Sculpture includes monuments to famous men and women and racehorses, a long tradition of sculptural decoration on buildings, the ironwork gates of Sandringham, and the commissions across both counties which marked the millennium. These and later commissions form the largest part of the database, over a quarter of the entries and photographs.
The Recording Archive 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. To achieve its aims – to increase public awareness, understanding and enjoyment of public art – the PMSA has undertaken a wide range of projects, notably the National Recording Project (NRP), a survey of public sculptures and monuments throughout Britain. The results are available in a series of volumes on Public Sculpture published by Liverpool University Press and on the PMSA website at:
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 and higher quality JPEGs and TIFFS.
The Website
There are two parts:
- Forms and photography
- A map of Norfolk and Suffolk indicating the location of all 819 public sculptures. (The mapping conventions do not allow for precision in the major urban sites, precise details can be found from the forms). We use 6 digit OS National Grid References. For a discussion on how to convert references see: Convert between Latitude/Longitude & OS National Grid Reference points
- Contact us - For queries about the archive contact the co-ordinator.
