Chalice The Sculpture
Eighteen-metre steel cone of native-leaf panels, glowing from within after dark.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Chalice in Christchurch's Cathedral Square starts with a row over two very different price tags, and the council meeting in March 2025 where it broke into the open. It weighs a cleaning bottle against a full restoration, and asks what twenty-five years of weather does to a steel artwork. Along the way you'll meet sculptor Neil Dawson and the native leaves he cut into its skin. Best heard standing right beside the cone, looking up.
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