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Title
'Jacob' – The Circle Dray Horse
Date
1987
Medium
bronze & artificial stone
Measurements
H 244 x W 914 x D 356 cm;
Plinth: H 152 x W 302 x D 129 cm
Accession number
SE1_AS_S111
Acquisition method
commissioned by Jacobs Island Company and Farlane Properties
Work type
Equestrian
Owner
Southwark London Borough Council
Custodian
Southwark London Borough Council
Work status
extant
Unveiling date
1st October 1987
Access
at all times
Inscription description
on bronze plaques on the pedestal; front: JACOB / --- / THE CIRCLE DRAY HORSE / / THE FAMOUS COURAGE DRAY HORSES WERE STABLED / ON THIS SITE FROM THE EARLY NINETEENTH / CENTURY AND DELIVERED BEER AROUND LONDON / FROM THE BREWERY ON HORSELYDOWN LANE / BY TOWER BRIDGE. / IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY THE AREA BECAME / KNOWN AS HORSELYDOWN, WHICH DERIVES FROM / HORSE-LIE-DOWN, A DESCRIPTION OF WORKING / HORSES RESTING BEFORE CROSSING LONDON BRIDGE / INTO THE CITY OF LONDON. / JACOB WAS COMMISSIONED BY / JACOBS ISLAND COMPANY AND FARLANE PROPERTIES / AS THE CENTREPIECE OF THE CIRCLE / TO COMMEMORATE THE HISTORY OF THE SITE. / HE WAS FLOWN OVER LONDON BY HELICOPTER / INTO QUEEN ELIZABETH STREET TO LAUNCH / THE CIRCLE IN OCTOBER 1987; rear, firstly, within a circle: THE / CIRCLE / TOWER BRIDGE; then, below: A DEVELOPMENT BY / JACOBS ISLAND COMPANY PLC / AND / FARLANE PROPERTIES NV / ARCHITECTS / CAMPBELL ZOGOLOVITCH WILKINSON & GOUGH / ROBINSON KEEFE & DEVANE / COMPLETED 1990