{"id":710174,"date":"2026-07-25T07:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T07:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/710174\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T07:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T07:41:09","slug":"sculptor-calls-for-high-wycombe-red-lion-statue-to-be-repaired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/710174\/","title":{"rendered":"Sculptor calls for High Wycombe Red Lion statue to be repaired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mantripp, a wood carver and sculptor from the town, said he had restored the pine structure three times. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was first done after the Great Storm of 1987, when it blew down. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I spent many months restoring it and re-carved more than 45% of it, it had new feet, and the back of its head,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He restored it again in 2002 following vandalism and it was renovated once more in 2017 after a campaign by the Bucks Free Press and The High Wycombe Society. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said last year he noticed the tail had fallen off due to rotting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I feel some slight obligation to look after it. I&#8217;m willing to repair it and have quoted to do it. I want it restored and looked after, it needs to be done. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If it was regularly painted it wouldn&#8217;t need restoring, it needs to be regularly maintained.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mantripp, a wood carver and sculptor from the town, said he had restored the pine structure three times.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710175,"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-710174","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\/710174","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=710174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}