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© Mayor of Colchester. Image credit: Tracy Jenkins / Art UK

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Statues of sisters Jane and Ann Taylor, dressed in bonnets, one pointing towards the stars. The sisters lived in nearby West Stockwell Street between 1796–1810 and wrote children's poems. Based on one of their poems titled 'The Star' in 1806, the first verse later became the well-known nursery rhyme 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star'.
Title

Twinkle

Date

2024

Medium

bronze

Measurements

H 180 x W (?) x D (?) cm

Accession number

CO1_TJ_S1001

Acquisition method

commissioned by former MP Sir Bob Russell and funded entirely by public donations and fundraising

Work type

Statue

Owner

Mayor of Colchester

Custodian

Colchester Council

Work status

extant

Unveiling date

5 May 2024

Access

at all times

Inscription description

Pavement inscription: Jane Taylor / and / Ann Taylor / Twinkle, Twinkle little star, / How I wonder, what you are! / Up above the world do high, / Like a diamond in the sky, / Twinkle , twinkle little star, / How I wonder what you are. / Written in Colchester / in 1806 / by Jane Taylor

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Located at

High Street, Colchester

CO1 1DH

Set at ground level, with inscription and the words of the rhyme set into the pavement.