{"id":129470,"date":"2025-09-11T08:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/129470\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T08:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:07:06","slug":"wolverhampton-candle-sculpture-hoped-to-encourage-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/129470\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolverhampton candle sculpture hoped to encourage visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cedar tree was felled for safety reasons earlier this year after being badly damaged during Storm Darragh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It led the council&#8217;s arboricultural team to suggest Mr Cossey could use the salvaged wood to create the artwork, which now stands on the tree&#8217;s stump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sculpture is one of a number of churchyard schemes funded from the same pot of money, including the repair and cleaning of St Peter&#8217;s fountain, the council said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Future plans include lighting up the gardens to improve city-centre safety, as well as the church facade and Wolverhampton Art Gallery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Chris Burden, cabinet member for city development, jobs and skills, said the &#8220;wonderful sculpture&#8221; was part of plans to encourage visitors to Wolverhampton  and make it &#8220;a destination city to be truly proud of&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cedar tree was felled for safety reasons earlier this year after being badly damaged during Storm Darragh.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-129470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}