This 2.5 mile walk will take you around the wonderfully diverse art in Calne, taking in both the urban environment of the town centre and some of the green spaces along the Abberd Brook and Castlefields park.
2 hours free parking is available at the Church Street car park, also known as the Heritage Quarter car park. This is accessible from New Road. There is also 2 hours of free parking available at Sainsbury's.
For more information and additional points of interest (including the lost art of Calne), check out the website: https://www.calneheritageandamenities.org.uk/p/calne-public-art-trail.html
Approaching the entrance to Calne library, you will see the bronze relief of Jan Ingenhousz. Looking away from the library you will see the pavement designed to look like a leaf.
Jan Ingenhousz is the genius who solved the mysteries of photosynthesis.
He was buried within St Mary‘s Church, Calne, in 1799 and is remembered by this bronze relief head at the entrance to Calne Library. The head is surrounded by a star shape representing the sun.
Snaking down from this bronze relief towards The Head is paving in the form of a leaf, made from dark grey and white granite setts.
David Reeves designed the paving and made the ceramic inserts, while the modelled head of Ingenhousz is by Vivien ap Rhys Pryce.
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