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Richard Kindersley is a British typeface designer, stone letter carver and sculptor.
He has also constructed a modern stone circle called '' The Millennium Stones'' created during 1998 to 1999 in Gatton Park, The Millennium Stones
The Megalithic Portal, 9 February 2010.
File:The Millennium Stones, Gatton Park - geograph.org.uk - 1319809.jpg, The Millennium Stones,
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Richard Kindersley is a British typeface designer, stone letter carver and sculptor.
Career
Kindersley studied lettering and sculpture at Cambridge School of Art and in the workshop of his fatherDavid Kindersley
David Guy Barnabas Kindersley Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, MBE (11 June 1915 – 2 February 1995) was a British stone Letter cutting, letter-carver and typeface designer, and the founder of the Kindersley Workshop (l ...
, who was also a noted stone carver. His major public work is the ''Seven Ages of Man'', a sculpture outside Baynard House in the City of London.
He has also constructed a modern stone circle called '' The Millennium Stones'' created during 1998 to 1999 in Gatton Park
Gatton Park is a country estate set in parkland landscaped by Capability Brown and gardens by Henry Ernest Milner and Edward White (landscape architect), Edward White at Gatton, Surrey, Gatton, near Reigate in Surrey, England.
Gatton Park is n ...
Surrey, to mark the double millennium from AD1 to AD2000. The first stone in the series is inscribed with the words from St John's Gospel, "in the beginning the word was". The subsequent nine stones are carved with quotations contemporary with each 200 year segment, ending with the words of T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright.Bush, Ronald. "T. S. Eliot's Life and Career", in John A Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds), ''American National Biography''. New York: Oxford University ...
.The Megalithic Portal, 9 February 2010.
Gallery
Gatton Park
Gatton Park is a country estate set in parkland landscaped by Capability Brown and gardens by Henry Ernest Milner and Edward White (landscape architect), Edward White at Gatton, Surrey, Gatton, near Reigate in Surrey, England.
Gatton Park is n ...
File:Photo showing close up of The Seven Ages of Man sculpture by Richard Kindersley at Baynard House.jpg, The Seven Ages of Man sculpture by Richard Kindersley at Baynard House
File:Photo showing close up of faces and window - The Seven Ages of Man sculpture by Richard Kindersley at Baynard House.jpg, Close up of The Seven Ages of Man sculpture by Richard Kindersley at Baynard House
File:Photo showing close up of text on The Seven Ages of Man sculpture by Richard Kindersley at Baynard House.jpg, Close up of text on The Seven Ages of Man sculpture by Richard Kindersley at Baynard House
File:Photo showing Baynard House and sculpture 'The Seven Ages of Man' by Richard Kindersley.jpg, Baynard House and sculpture 'The Seven Ages of Man' by Richard Kindersley
References
External links
Inside the Lines
Richard Kindersley Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum Living people British letter cutters Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-sculptor-stub