Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
25834
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
22/10/2001  
Date of Amendment
22/10/2001  
Name of Property
Sculpture in forecourt of Department of Music, Cardiff University  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Cardiff  
Community
Cathays  
Town
Cardiff  
Locality
Cathays  
Easting
317935  
Northing
177355  
Street Side
N  
Location
On the W side of the entrance to the Department of Music.  

Description


Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces  
Period
 

History
Installed 1968 and by Barbara Hepworth, renowned British sculptor. It stands within the forecourt of the Department of Music, which was built in 1970 by Alex Gordon & Partners, architects of Cardiff.  

Exterior
An abstract bronze sculpture on a brick plinth. The composition is a grouping of three trapezoidal wings (c 3m high and c 0.25m thick) fanned across a wide brick plinth. Each wing is pierced by an oculus of height and diameter varied in relation to its neighbours.. This sculpture belongs within Hepworth''s artistic credo that her work should "infuse the formal perfection of geometry with the vital grace of nature".  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as a rare public work in Wales by one of the foremost C20 British sculptors, and for its contribution with Aberdare Hall and colonnade to Queen Anne Square to the architectural character of the Corbett Road townscape.  

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