Photo: Graham Demaline Wikimedia Commons
Sculptor: David Palmer of D.P. Structures Ltd.
Materials: Oxidised copper, brass, Corten steel and local stone
Dimensions: Statue: h. 160cm.; base 250 x 100cm.
Inscription: on short adjacent post in cut steel: ALICE /2012 /ALICE
Unveiled: 28 July 2012 by Bobby Elliott, the drummer with The Hollies, who came from Roughlee.
Erected: 2012
Condition: Good (2017)
Alice Nutter
Alice Nutter (1560-1612) was the widow of a tenant farmer, she was accused of witchcraft and hanged as a result of the Pendle witch-hunt. She always maintained that she was innocent and the evidence condemning her was weak. The statue was commissioned by Pendle Borough Council and Roughlee Parish Council following a campaign by a local councillor. The sculpture, which is located close to where Alice Nutter is believed to have lived, depicts her in chains stepping up as if on to a scaffold. It was erected in 2012 four centuries after her death. The statue forms part of the Pendle Witches Sculpture Trail.
Source: D.A. Cross, Public Sculpture of Lancashire and Cumbria, Liverpool, 2017,pp.93-94.
Location: Blacko Bar Road, Roughlee, Lancashire.