St. Peter's community mosaic - inscriptions
at Stoke
 

Location:  Seat / Bench at St Peter's Close, centre of churchyard of St Peter's, close to the remains of the original Saxon Church and between the graves of Josiah Wedgwood and Josiah Spode 
Unveiled: 13 October 2000
Artists: Phillip Hardaker,  Helen Sayer
Commissioned by: Stoke on Trent City Council

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Inscriptions:  are on all faces of the bench as shown below

 

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Front (facing away from church)

JUBILEE 2000/COALITION BRING GOOD NEWS TO THE POOR/PROCLAIM RELEASE TO THE CAPTIVES/ AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND/TO LET THE OPPRESSED GO FREE/TO PROCLAIM THE YEAR OF THE LORD'S FAVOUR

BISHOP/LOVELACE/STAMER

 

 
(above plaque of building) inscribed ST PETERS/ NATIONAL SCHOOL          HEALING

 

(to right of plaque showing St Peter's Church) Two smaller plaques inscribed:

 MOUNT/PLEASANT/AND ST PETERS/SCHOOLS MERGE/2000 AD

and BISHOP/STAMER/PRIMARY/SCHOOL

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on right arm of seat

(to left of plaque of school) two plaques inscribed:

DESIGN BASED ON/IDEAS BY CHILDREN/OF ST PETERS AND/MOUNT PLEASANT/PRIMARY SCHOOLS

and THANKYOU TO THE/CHILDREN OF ST PETERS/AND MOUNT PLEASANT/ PRIMARY SCHOOLS

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on left arm of seat

plaque inscribed:
THIS MOSAIC CELEBRATES/THE INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE/OF STOKE.
THE HISTORY/OF THE CHURCH AND OUR/ASPIRATIONS FOR THE FUTURE

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Right hand end:

2000 AD and, below that, ECOLOGY appears vertically

 

Below fox: ARTISTS/HELEN SAYER/PHILIP HARDAKER
Next to hedgehog: EDGAR/RUDDOCK

 

Next to base, three banners inscribed SWEET RAIN, RIVER TRENT and PURE RIVERS

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back of seat:

Above man in flat cap carrying pots: WELCOME

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Below seat

on plaque of canal barge: STAFFORDSHIRE CANALS

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Right hand arm of seat

The word WELCOME appears in a variety of languages, both European and Asian.

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left hand arm of seat

on four separate plaques:

FUNDED/BY

STOKE/ON/TRENT/CITY/COUNCIL

THE/EUROPEAN/COMMUNITY/ERDF/RECHAR 11/COMMUNITY/INITIATIVE

THE/STOKE APPROACH

Two smaller plaques inscribed AH DO and ILO LA

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Left hand end: 2000 AD

above STANLEY/MATTHEWS

Below shirt:
GENTLEMAN/FOOTBALLER/LEGEND/1915/-/2000

 

Beneath, the word WELCOME again appears in several different languages, both European and Asian.

 

Underneath this, two central designs of spacecraft bear the words
SCHOOL OF DIFFERENT and RELIGION respectively.

 

      

Three small plaques on this wall commemorating local industries inscribed

CAUDWELL/COMMUNICATION (on left),

NEW/TECHNOLOGIES (upper right),

MICHELIN FUTURE 2000 (on right).

 

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