A spectacular display of ceramic poppies cascading from a window on Cromer parish church to remember dead from both world wars has attracted hundreds of visitors. Tony Rothe reports.
The poppy project is called the Weeping Window and was the brainchild of Cromer’s Town Clerk, Julie Chance. The sculpture is made up of 4500 red ceramic poppies representing the millions of people who died in the first and second world wars. These spill from the window before flooding the grounds outside the building.
The installation also features hundreds of purple poppies encircling a life-size wicker horse, right, to symbolise the millions of animals which died in both the first and second world wars.
Sue Mears, from Cromer’s Sticky Earth Café, enlisted a large number of volunteers to help create the thousands of poppies by hand. Throughout the winter of 2019, they met every Tuesday morning, when poppy after poppy was rolled and shaped, fired in the oven, then painted in a coloured glaze and fired again. Each poppy was then inserted by hand into the huge net hanging from the window in the church.
Elizabeth Bridger, from Cromer Parish Church, said “This wonderful waterfall of poppies took eighteen months to create – a true labour of love! Together with its accompanying beautiful horse they make a spectacular display which has already attracted hundreds of visitors”
The installation will stay in place throughout the Jubilee celebrations before being taken down on June 13, when the individual poppies will be available to purchase. To buy a poppy, contact Julie Chance via her email address: [email protected]
The pictures are courtesy of Elizabeth Bridger.
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Tony Rothe, 24/05/2022
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