{"id":172042,"date":"2025-10-01T04:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T04:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/172042\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T04:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T04:52:07","slug":"artist-recreating-lincoln-street-on-giant-roll-of-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/172042\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist recreating Lincoln street on giant roll of paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An architectural artist is recreating every detail of one of Lincoln&#8217;s oldest streets on a huge roll of paper in ink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matthew Wright, from Lincoln, said he had been inspired by the length and size of the Bayeux Tapestry to recreate the Bailgate in a way that celebrated the city and its architecture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The street runs from Lincoln&#8217;s castle and cathedral to the Newport Arch, a 3rd Century Roman gate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 20 buildings have listed status and some houses and shops date as far back as the 13th Century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Wright said his artwork, dubbed &#8220;the Bailgate Papestry&#8221;, would take between four and six months to complete. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then plans to start on the other side of the street, with the ultimate aim of displaying the work in a local gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An architectural artist is recreating every detail of one of Lincoln&#8217;s oldest streets on a huge roll of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172043,"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-172042","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\/172042","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=172042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}