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Title*

Boat-builder
County Norfolk   District Council Broadland District Council 
Civil Parish or equivalent Reedham  Town/Village* Wherryman's Way - Reedham 
Road Riverside road 
Precise Location Besides River Yare 
OS Grid Ref TG418018  Postcode NR13 
Previous location(s)  
Setting Riverside  Access Public 
Artist/Maker Role Qualifier
Imagemakers  Designer(s)   

Commissioned by

 Wherryman’s Way Partnership group of Norfolk County Council South Norfolk District Council the Broads Authority and the Chet Valley Development Partnership. 

Design & Constrn period

 2005 

Date of installing

  

Exact date of unveiling

 May 28th 2005 

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: Statue of boat-builder

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
Boat-builder  Fibreglass  Life-size 
Work-bench  Wood  H. 90 cms. L. 60 cms. W. 35 cms 

Work is
Extant Not Sited Lost

Owner/Custodian

 Broadland District Council 

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)

 A boat-builder wearing an apron is working with his plane at his wooden work-bench. He is intended to be seen from the river. 

Description (iconographical)

 The figure is accompanied by a board describing the village’s boat building heyday in the words of 19th century author T.F. Goodall. The 35 mile Wherryman’s Way, which starts and finishes at Norwich and Gt Yarmouth railway stations, winds through existing footpaths, open marshes, redbuds, grazing meadows and riverside villages along the banks of the River Yare. The sculpture marking the route was commissioned in 2005 at a cost in the region of £200,000. The major contributor was the Broads & Rivers LEADER+ Programme, managed by DEFRA, with further input from the project partners: the Broads Authority, Norfolk County Council, South Norfolk District Council and the Chet Valley Development Partnership. All the sculpture was commissioned by Imagemakers, who used, but do not acknowledge, a team of designers with differing, but limited, talents and interests.  

Photographs

 Date taken:  9/6/2006
Date logged: 

Photographed by:
Sarah Cocke

On Site Inspection

 Date:  9/6/2006

Inspected by:
Richard Cocke

Sources and References

 Imagemakers Design and Consulting Press Release June 2005 (accessed 09/06/06) 

Database

 Date entered:  27/5/2007

Data inputter:
Richard Cocke