The Spirit of Portland

This magnificent carving, by the artist and sculptor Joanna Szuwalska, stands towards the highest public part of Portland Bill, near the point where stone was loaded onto trucks to start their journey down the Merchants' Railway to Castletown. On one side it shows a fisherman and on the other a stonemason, the two trades associated with this beautiful Island. Just up the road is Tout Quarry Sculpture Park, an old quarry that is now a nature reserve and stone sculpture park.