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Moonstones around edge of car parkJosiah Wedgwood's stone
The Moonstones (grid reference SP062949) are a set of nine carved sandstone memorials to various members of the Lunar Society. Made in 1998, and unveiled in March 1999, they can be viewed in the grounds of the Asda supermarket in Queslett, Great Barr, Birmingham, England.[1][2] They are visible from the highway, when travelling from Aldridge Road into Queslett Road, toward the Scott Arms, and face outwards from the supermarket.
They depict nine members of the Society and attributes connected with their work, in order from Aldridge Road round to Queslett Road:[3][circular reference]
Josiah Wedgwood: portrait and three women from a jasperware design
Erasmus Darwin: portrait and design for horizontal windmill
Samuel Galton: colour wheel
William Murdock: steam road locomotive
Matthew Boulton: medal with his portrait
James Watt: portrait and steam engine
Joseph Priestley: laboratory equipment
James Keir: crystals
William Withering: foxglove, with words from his book An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses
The stones also each have a phase of the Moon carved on them, with the Watt stone being the full moon.
The designs are by Steve Field and were executed by stonemasons Malcolm Sier and Michael Scheuermann.[4] The rear of the Watt stone includes a carved panel crediting the artists and sponsors.
Great Barr Hall, Galton's home and a venue for meetings of the Lunar Society, is nearby.
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^"Store Shapes up for Tribute to Scholars". Birmingham Evening Mail. Birmingham, England. 2 April 1999. p. 31. Retrieved 10 May 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^"The Lunar Society (1785)". Great Barr Hall, Past and Present. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
^"The Moonstones". Lunar Society. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
^Noszlopy, George Thomas; Waterhouse, Fiona (2005). Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country. Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press. p. 294.
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