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The Animal Wall is a sculptured wall depicting 15 animals in the Castle Quarter of the city centre of Cardiff, Wales. It is a Grade I listed structure.〔(Animal Wall-Grade I Listed )〕 ==History== The Animal Wall was designed by William Burges in 1866, but it was not built until 1890, after Burges's death in 1881. The work of the restoration of Cardiff Castle and the building of the Animal Wall for the Marquess of Bute, was continued by his former assistant William Frame.〔(Cardiff Castle timeline )〕 The original nine animal figures were sculptured by Thomas Nicholls, they were the hyena, wolf, apes, seal, bear, lioness, lynx, and 2 different lions. They were painted in naturalistic colours, although since then the paint work on the sculptures has been removed.〔(Cardiff Castle's animal wall under repair )〕〔(Do you nose how castle sculpture used to look? )〕 The wall was moved about from outside Cardiff Castle to its present location outside Bute Park in 1922, due to road widening in front of the castle in Duke Street and Castle Street (now the A4161). In 1931 a further six animals were added; the pelican, ant-eater, raccoons, leopard, beaver and vulture.〔 They were all sculptured by Alexander Carrick.〔 In the 1970s Council planners had wanted to demolish the Animal Wall to widen the Castle Street again, but this idea was later abandoned.〔 As part of a £5.6 million refurbishment of Bute Park, restoration of the animals began in July 2010. During the repair, the anteater's nose, which has been missing since the late 90s, was replaced as well as the missing glass eyes in the nine original animals.〔(WalesOnline | Work starts on Bute Park 'Animal Wall' )〕 This work was completed in October 2010.〔(Cardiff Council | HLF (Heritage Lottery Fund) Bute Park Restoration Project )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Animal Wall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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