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Title*

Stag
County Norfolk   District Council Norwich City Council 
Civil Parish or equivalent Norwich City Council  Town/Village* Norwich 
Road Orford Place 
Precise Location No. 8 
OS Grid Ref TG231083  Postcode NR1 
Previous location(s)  
Setting On Building  Access Public 
Artist/Maker Role Qualifier
Not known     
Replacement Blyth-Jex School Art Department  Other   

Commissioned by

 George Jeffries Gunmaker 

Design & Constrn period

 Original ca. 1883 replacement 1984 

Date of installing

  

Exact date of unveiling

  

Category
Abstract Animal Architectural
Commercial Commemorative Composite
Free Functional Funerary
Heraldic Military Natural
Non-Commemorative Performance Portable
Religious Roadside, Wayside Sculptural
Temporary, Mobile Other  

Object Type
Building Clock Tower Architectural
Coat of Arms Cross Fountain
Landscape Marker Medallion
Mural Panel Readymade
Relief Shaft Sculpture
Statue Street Furniture War Memorial
Other Object Sub Type: Shop sign

Subject Type
Allegorical Mythological Pictorial
Figurative Non-figurative Portrait
Still-life Symbolic Other

Subject Sub Type
Bust Equestrian Full-length
Group Head Reclining
Seated Standing Torso
Part Material Dimension
Original  Cement  L. 2 metres approx. 
Replacement  Fibreglass  L.2 metres approx. 

Work is
Extant Not Sited Lost

Owner/Custodian

 Darlows Gunmakers and repairers 

Listing status
Grade I Grade II* Grade II Don't Know Not Listed

Surface Condition
Corrosion, Deterioration Accretions
Bird Guano Abrasions, cracks, splits
Biological growth Spalling, crumbling
Metallic staining Previous treatments
Other  
Detail:

Structural Condition
Armature exposed Broken or missing parts
Replaced parts Loose elements
Cracks, splits, breaks, holes Spalling, crumbling
Water collection Other
Detail:

Vandalism
Graffiti Structural damage Surface Damage
Detail:

Overall condition
Good Fair Poor

Risk
No Known Risk At Risk Immediate
Signatures/Marks  
Inscriptions  

Description (physical)

 The shop has been a gunmakers since the nineteenth century and Darlows are still there behind the obvious shop front. They believe that the original stag was commissioned as a sign by George Jeffries. The first mention of Jeffries is in 1883. The cement original was taken down in 1973 and replaced by the current fibreglass copy -the work of the Blyth-Jex school Art Department- in 1984. The shop is listed Grade II but this hardly applies to the replacement stag. 

Description (iconographical)

 It proclaims the message 'shoot it with our guns'. 

Photographs

 Date taken:  8/6/2006
Date logged: 

Photographed by:
Sarah Cocke

On Site Inspection

 Date:  21/6/2006

Inspected by:
Richard Cocke

Sources and References

 Eyre's Norwich Directory London 1883 140 

Database

 Date entered:  1/9/2006

Data inputter:
Richard Cocke