Addison Seat

Antony Holloway – Kennel Car Park – 1994

Material: Wood, Stone

Trail: Millwood Trail

Theme: Seating

Form: Abstract

Maps Featured on: 1998 – 2005

Status: Removed, no remains

This was a curved wooden seat, with stone base, sited on the higher path of the Millwood Trail just adjacent to Kennels Car Park. Seasoned elm was used to create the pointed back rest. Despite being created in 1994 it wasn’t listed on a map until four years later.

Proposal sketch courtesy of Antony Holloway

It was created as a memorial to Lois Mary Addison 1919-1994, as Holloway explains “John Addison approached the Grizedale society shortly after his wife died asking permission to site memorial seat in the forest for Lois as she was local to the area and knew the forest well.  The Grizedale Society put John Addison in touch with me and he commissioned me to make the seat.”

Photographs courtesy of Antony Holloway

Quote from John Addison – “On the 21st of October 1994 Reverend M.H. Cannon dedicated the seat to Lois’ memory and then scattered her ashes on the forest floor.”

The seat was last listed on the 2003 map, around this time Go Ape arrived in the area, whether this was why it was removed I’m not sure but this part of the path is now part of the Go Ape trail.

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Artist’s other work in Grizedale –

Living Wood – 1991

Water Wheel – 1993

The Turning Point, Slate Seat, Circle of Logs – 1990s

Spiral Growth – 1993

Brantwood Seat – 1995

The Wheel of Seasons – 1996

Page last updated April 2020