Scribble Stone Inspire Creates Iconic Landmark in Peterborough: Voice of the City

Scribble Stone Inspire is a highly-skilled, time-served team specialising in public realm and art projects, producing the highest level of detail and craftsmanship. Working in collaboration with artists, architects and city planners we can create the most unique architectural installations and public realm spaces, using innovative techniques the materials shown below can be manipulated to accentuate the character of each material.

Working with Broadbent Studios, we helped create this iconic landmark which sits in the town of Peterborough. The Voice of the City sculpture stands near the site of Henry Penn’s foundry (1685-1729), where bells were cast for Peterborough Cathedral and other churches. In this sculpture, the casting of molten metal into a stone mould represents the unstructured sounds being funnelled into a single note, symbolised further by the Chladni inlayed sound wave patterns.

This public realm scheme was constructed with Scoutmoor Yorkstone and Kilkenny limestone. The high performance and technical abilities of these natural stones have made them a valuable material for centuries.

Scoutmoor Yorkstone was water-jet cut and inlaid with brass to emulate sound wave-like patterns. To maintain the polished look of the lettering, we sandblasted the plinth and boarders of Kilkenny limestone.

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