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Queen's Road
(Wills Memorial Building - Reception Room Bay)

The Four Faculties

Ernest Fabian & Fred Jeans
1923

Description

The Wills Memorial Building is a Neo Gothic building designed by Sir George Oatley and built as a memorial to Henry Overton Wills III by his sons George and Henry Wills. It was built between 1915 and 1925. It houses faculties of the University of Bristol.

On the reception room bay window, left of the tower, are four statues representing the four faculties.

Engineering

Science

Arts

Medicine

Sculptors

Ernest F. Fabian (Winchester 1867 - 1931), British sculptor (Mapping of Sculpture).
Fred Jeans, British sculptor.

Sources & Information

Wills Memorial Building. University of Bristol Buildings no. 1 (2003), p. 30.

Locatie (N 51°27'21" - W 2°36'17") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: gbsw036; Photograph: 21 March 2019
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