{"id":489078,"date":"2026-05-17T10:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/489078\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T10:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:45:11","slug":"fantastic-creatures-to-be-carved-in-stone-at-dover-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/489078\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fantastic creatures&#8217; to be carved in stone at Dover festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among those taking part, Carrie Horwood, from Kent, will carve a dog chasing its tail inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gayle Lazda, from London, will carve a dolphin, while Emily Guest and Alex Jubb, also from London, will work together on a lion with its tongue sticking out. Candida Wright, from Kent, will carve St Martin, patron saint of Dover, on horseback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All three carvings have been inspired by images from stained glass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marguerite Le Brusque, from France, will carve a dragon inspired by features in the Connaught Hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adam Billaut, from France, will carve a fantastical animal and Thomas Kenrick, from Loughborough, will take his inspiration from a dragon grotesque on a parapet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among those taking part, Carrie Horwood, from Kent, will carve a dog chasing its tail inspired by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-489078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116589515597769850","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}