Sherborne Mermaid
  120mm (4.75") high x 120mm (4.75") wide
 

High above the ancient landlocked town of Sherborne in Dorset, England there lives a Mermaid. Half hidden in the intricate fan vaulting high above the Choir in Sherborne Abbey she is to be found amongst hundreds of other carvings of faith and superstition, put in place by Master Masons long ago in the fifteenth century. This wonderful creature, the Maid of the Sea, is famed and feared for her seductive beauty: she is shown here with her traditional 'attributes' of mirror and comb. It is her treacherous duty in this world that, by guile and song, she shall lure hapless sailors to their doom.

 These castings are designed, sculpted and manufactured in England, using resin-bonded marble, bronze and Cotswold stone. Modern moulding techniques faithfully reproduce the intricate and painstaking work of the sculptor whilst giving the appearance of real carved stone or sculpted terracotta. The resin sculptures are weatherproof, the plaques having a hole drilled in the back for easy hanging