I love functional outdoor art.

Carved benches like the one at City Bank Nursery in Cirencester dedicated to Anne, a pensioner who loved taking rambles through nature but needed to sit down whenever she could (Look closely there’s a carved fox hiding inside).

I love the play structure in Abbey Grounds and how kids scramble over it finding the animals lovingly carved into its sides. (Watch out there’s a snake!)

So imagine my delight when The Bathurst Estate offered a massive trunk from the Broad Avenue, and funding became available to carve something with animals to go near the gates of Cirencester Primary in Victoria Playing Field.

Kids would form happy memories scarpering over it.

Pregnant mothers could sit on it whilst waiting to pick up between three and half three.

Pensioners and dog walkers could sit and admire the view whilst walking into town from Beeches and beyond.

But no: its heading to the soggy flood plain of City Bank Recreation field instead with far fewer potential users.

Of course if you like beautiful functional things then there are no bad uses or bad places, but surely some locations are just way more deserving than others.

Nick Bridges

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