Returning to this blog after a long time, I'm going to use it as a record of my sketching journey. This is a quick sketch of a favourite place.
The Echo is a Grade II listed C18th built about 1715 banqueting loggia, (a covered exterior gallery) in the Kings Weston estate, designed by Sir John Vanburgh. It got the name from the echo which once reverberated back in the same direction.
The Echo has a mystery too. A Georgian statue, ( a woman draped in classical robes with braided hair) once stood on the ornate plinth in the centre. She was last seen in a 1927 photograph.
The statue was toppled some time during WWII when the park was used as barracks for the US Army.
She then moved to the basement of Kings Weston House and until 1970 was in the students' common room of Bristol College of Science and Technology's architecture department. After that her location became unknown. I'd love to see her found and brought back home one day!
