“Sir John Betjeman” (original) (raw)

Sir John Betjeman (detail)

Martin Jennings (b.1957)

2007

Bronze

St Pancras Station, London

This is a case in which setting is not simply appropriate (Betjeman was the foremost advocate of the restoration), but contributes greatly to the impact of the sculpture — and vice versa, because Betjeman directs our gaze upwards too.

Photograph by Jacqueline Banerjee

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