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Title
St Mary Redcliffe Maze
Date
1984
Medium
red brick & terracotta
Measurements
H (?) x W 920 x D 920 cm
Accession number
BS3_PF_S128
Work type
Sculpture
Owner
Bristol City Council
Custodian
Bristol City Council
Work status
extant
Access
at all times
Inscription description
inscription impressed into the title plaque and thereafter into 24 numbered plaques set into the brickwork of the outer wall. plaque 1: ST. MARY / REDCLIFFE / MAZE / THIS MAZE COMMEMORATES / THE RECOGNITION OF THE / NEED FOR CLEAN WATER; plaque 2: BY CITIZENS OF BRISTOL IN / BOTH THE TWELFTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES; plaque 3: IN 1190 A PIPELINE WAS BUILT / FROM KNOWLE TO / ST MARY REDCLIFFE CHURCH; plaque 4: THIS CARRIED FRESH WATER / FROM A SPRING TO THE / PARISH OF REDCLIFFE; plaque 5: FOR MANY YEARS THIS WAS / THE ONLY CLEAN WATER / SUPPLY FOR REDCLIFFE; plaque 6: CHOLERA EPIDEMICS CAUSED / MANY DEATHS IN 1832 & / 1849; plaque 7: TREATED DRINKING WATER AND / NEW SEWERS WERE THEN / PROVIDED FROM 1850; plaque 8: ONE OF THESE LATER PIPE / LINES ALSO PASSES BENEATH / THIS PARK; plaque 9: THIS IS THE SOUTHERN FOUL / WATER INTERCEPTOR SEWER / BUILT IN 1975-84; plaque 10: FROM ST.ANNE’S THE PIPE / GOES BENEATH ARNO’S VALE / TOTTERDOWN & BEDMINSTER; plaque 11: IT TAKES SEWAGE FROM / SOUTH BRISTOL TO / AVONMOUTH FOR TREATMENT; plaque 12: THIS SEWAGE USED TO / DISCHARGE DIRECTLY INTO / THE RIVER AVON (NEW CUT); plaque 13: THE NEW PIPELINE WILL / THEREFORE HELP TO CLEAR / THE RIVER OF POLLUTION; plaque 14: DURING WORK ON THE NEW / PIPELINE, THE ANCIENT / PIPE WAS UNCOVERED; plaque 15: IT WAS STILL ‘SHIP SHAPE / & BRISTOL FASHION’ AS FAR / AS THE RAILWAY; plaque 16: BEYOND THERE IT HAD BEEN / DAMAGED BY BOMBS NEAR / YORK ROAD IN 1941; plaque 17: THIS WATERMAZE WAS / BUILT OVER THE ANCIENT / PIPELINE IN AUGUST 1984; plaque 18: THE SPRING WATER FROM THAT PIPE NOW FLOWS / THROUGH THE MAZE; plaque 19: A SPECIAL FEATURE OF THE / MAZE IS THAT IT HAS / NO DEAD ENDS; plaque 20: THE PATTERN IS COPIED / FROM A ROOF BOSS IN / ST MARY REDCLIFFE CHURCH; plaque 21: THE NEW SEWER AND / MAZE WERE INAUGURATED ON / MONDAY 22ND OCTOBER 1984; plaque 22: BY THE RT.HON. THE / LORD MAYOR OF BRISTOL / COUNCILLOR CLAUDE DRAPER; plaque 23: ACCESS & THE BRISTOL / CITY ENGINEER’S DEPT. / DESIGNED THE SCHEME; plaque 24: UNDER AGENCY / ARRANGEMENTS WITH THE / WESSEX WATER AUTHORITY