You might be surprised to learn that Suffolk has a statue to rival The Angel of the North. Yoxman stands tall alongside the A12 just north of Yoxford.  At nearly eight metres tall he is taller than the ridge on a two-storey house. He’s a big guy weighing in at eight tonnes. Sculptor Lawrence Edmunds spent four years hand crafting, casting and welding the fifty sections of the statue, each a large sheet of bronze, all carried out in the unlikely surroundings of Halesworth Business Park.

Yoxman stands in a meadow in front of the 16th century, Grade I listed Cockfield Hall, clearly visible from a lay-by on the A12.  Installed in November 2021 by the spring the meadow will 

be grazed by longhorn cattle, rubbing up against the statue and polishing everything they touch.  Lawrence Edwards suggests this will add to the patination of the statue.

John Norman

Photograph by John Norman

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