{"id":145962,"date":"2025-09-18T19:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/145962\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T19:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:45:13","slug":"benjamin-britten-statue-groundworks-on-lowestoft-seafront-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/145962\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Britten statue groundworks on Lowestoft seafront"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n A statue of one of Britain’s most celebrated composers Benjamin Britten, as a boy, is set to be installed looking out over the sea that inspired him in his birth town of Lowestoft.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n Works are under way at Lord Kitchener’s Garden on Kirkley Cliff in south Lowestoft in preparation for the installation.\n<\/p>\n

\n The monument of Britten as a Boy will be cast in bronze as it is “Coming to Lowestoft seafront soon”, according to the Britten as a Boy statue committee.\n<\/p>\n

\n The statue is set to be unveiled close to his childhood home at 21 Kirkley Cliff Road on a site close to one of Britten\u2019s early schools – South Lodge School, which he attended from the age of eight and is now the Claremont Pier car park.\n<\/p>\n

\n Benjamin Britten. Picture: Supplied(Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n

\n Benjamin Britten went on to become a central figure of 20th-century British music and was renowned as an outstanding composer, conductor, and pianist.\n<\/p>\n

\n He was made a Freeman of Lowestoft in 1951.\n<\/p>\n

\n Groundworks are under way at Lord Kitchener’s Garden on Kirkley Cliff in south Lowestoft.(Image: Mick Howes)\n<\/p>\n

\n The works at Lord Kitchener’s Garden, between the promenade and the Lord Kitchener Memorial Holiday Centre, began on the statue site in recent weeks.\n<\/p>\n

\n They are expected to be completed by October ahead of receiving the statue – which was sculpted by the Royal sculptor Ian Rank-Broadley – from the foundry.\n<\/p>\n

\n Groundworks are under way at Lord Kitchener’s Garden on Kirkley Cliff in south Lowestoft.(Image: Mick Howes)\n<\/p>\n

\n An official unveiling date is likely to be “announced in due course”.\n<\/p>\n

\n The statue, including its development, has cost around \u00a3120,000.\n<\/p>\n

\n The inscription for the Britten as a Boy statue. Picture: Britten as a Boy committee(Image: Britten as a boy committee)\n<\/p>\n

\n It will be accompanied by two bronze plaques, one describing the work and the other listing the principal donors.\n<\/p>\n

\n Campaigners from the Britten as a Boy statue committee launched an appeal<\/a> to raise the monies for the monument back in April 2022.\n<\/p>\n

\n Zeb Soanes, Ruth Wharrier and Ian Rank-Broadley with the finished clay sculpture.(Image: Britten as a boy committee)\n<\/p>\n

\n And dreams became reality following the three-year community project, as it was unanimously approved<\/a> by East Suffolk Council’s<\/a> planning committee north in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A statue of one of Britain’s most celebrated composers Benjamin Britten, as a boy, is set to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145023,"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-145962","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\/145962","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=145962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}