Description: These sculptures have been commissioned by the Tewkesbury Battlefield Society to mark the actual site of the important battle here in 1471, during the Wars of the Roses between the Yorkists and Lancastrians.

They also celebrate the historic character of the town of Tewkesbury. Their title, ‘Arrivall’, is taken from the 1471 account of the recovery of Henry VI’s English throne by Edward IV.

Commission Title:
Arrivall

Sculptor:
Philip Bews

Public Art:
Giant oak horses, one with a knight, the other rider-less

Site:
Stonehill Roundabout,
Tewkesbury, England

Production Method:
The two opposed armies are to be represented each by a single monumentally scaled oak construction - the Yorkists by a 5 metre (16 feet) high horse carrying a knight, and located actually on the Stonehill roundabout.

A second giant rider-less horse is to stand on the road verge south of the roundabout and facing the mounted knight. Its bowed head represents the defeated Lancastrian army.