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 Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 12:19 pm Post subject: Goddess of Plenty portico **Photographs required** -fb |
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Location: On top of building on corner of Union Street and King Street. The Archibald Simpson pub (former bank)
OS Ref: NJ 944 063
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This building was a North of Scotland Bank but it is now a pub. I committed a schoolboy error in Aberdeen and didn’t look up. Because of that I missed this architectural sculpture and have resorted to a very poor blurred image from GMSV until I can visit it again (or unless someone else gets there first)
From
http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/web/files/LocalHistory/sculpture_trail_leaflet.pdf
On top of building on corner of Union Street and King Street, visible from Castle Street Designed by local artist James Giles (1801-1870), for the portico of the then North of Scotland Bank . This colourful terracotta figure is of the Goddess of Plenty. The Goddess is accompanied by a British lion and holds a cornucopia of the fruits of the earth. Nelson Routledge Lucas and Company modelled this figure.
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