“Here is a very serious work of art,” said the Dean. “It is a very imaginative monument to a man who isn’t easily captured in words or stone. He was a giant of a man, and how do you capture the spirit of such a man?”
Mr Horrobin, 58, crafted the gates at his forge in Porlock, Somerset. It took 7,000 hours over 12 months and he was assisted by 10 people. He strove, he said, to evoke the pageantry associated with Churchill, incorporating the heraldic devices of the Churchill Lion, the roundels of the Order of Merit, the Order of the Garter and Warden of the Cinque Ports.
He hoped to impart “a sense of endeavour and an uplifting sense of celebration”.
And they’re a mere snip at £260,000.
Is it? Maybe a steel cake would've been more appropriate.
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