We went to Cirencester Friday before last and I spotted a brand new, bronze statue in a church niche in place of a medieval stone carving that vanished nearly 60 years ago.
Apparently it's one of two commissions. This one is of the Virgin and Child. The other is St John the Baptist, but I couldn't see the latter from where I was.
Should the commissions have been clones of the missing statues, or do these provide a bit of much needed modernity? I'm in two minds. They will certainly be there for centuries to come.
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