Horse and Rider sculpture, High Street, Winchester

Horse and Rider sculpture by Dame Elisabeth Frink, commissioned originally by Trafalgar House in 1975; this cast of the piece was erected on the S side of the High Street, at its junction with Trafalgar Street, Winchester in 1983.

MATERIALS: bronze on a raised platform with brick paving and brick retaining wall.

EXTERIOR: at approximately 244cm high, the sculpture is on a rough base set into the brick paving. Both the horse and rider are roughly finished, their faces fixed to the NW in common purpose. The horse is in a walking pose; it has a lightly-stylized mane, a shortened tail and expressionless gaze. It has no saddlery.

The rider, a man, has no clothing and is barefoot. Sitting slightly askew astride the horse, his left shoulder is pushed back slightly allowing his arm to drop and his hand to rest casually against the horse’s left flank. His right arm is positioned against his torso, bent forward at the elbow with his hand placed on the horse’s mane. The muscles of both horse and rider are lightly but clearly defined.