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By peterbjordan

Horse and Rider sculpture, High Street, Winchester

"The sculpture of the Horse and Rider by Dame Elisabeth Frink, of 1983, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Artistic interest: a sculpture of high artistic and aesthetic quality, cast in bronze from plaster, subtly detailed and well-composed; * Historic interest: as a cast of a piece originally commissioned by a commercial developer from the internationally renowned artist Dame Elisabeth Frink, and representative of a recurrent theme in her oeuvre; * Group value: with a number of listed buildings in the immediate vicinity."

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