Stone Spiral

The spiral is made from local Forest of Dean sandstone. It was cut and carved by Master Mason Pascal Mychalysin and his team of stonemasons from Gloucester Cathedral and can be found in the new Memorial Garden in Gloucester Park. The garden and spiral were designed by the City Council's team of landscape architects and the spiral sculpture is intended to symbolise regeneration, eternity and the cycle of life.

Photograph by Chris Keeling

'The Songs I Had' was written by the Gloucester born poet and composer Ivor Gurney. Our grateful thanks go to the Ivor Gurney Society for their kind permission to use the poem in the garden.

The songs I had are withered

Or vanished clean.

Yet there are bright tracks

Where I have been,

And there grow flowers

For others' delight.

Think well, O singer.

Soon comes night