The Worcestershire Pear Tree

CGD Ltd is proud to be supporting the Worcestershire Pear Tree.

CGD Ltd are very proud to be supporting this project. As a Worcester based company CGD Ltd considers that this project will be good for the region and give the county of Worcestershire a big 'lift'. Artist Antony Poels contacted CGD Ltd with a request to help and we were very pleased to be given the opportunity to show what we could do. The tree is expected to be erected in 2012.

The 'Worcester News' reported the announcement as follows

A SCULPTOR from West Malvern has designed a giant pear tree sculpture which is intended as Worcestershire's answer to the Angel of the North.

If backers of the plan can get funding, the sculpture, designed by Antony Poels, will be erected in a field alongside the M5 motorway near Worcester.

It will depict a black pear tree, a famous symbol of Worcestershire, and at 22 metres, will be taller than Antony Gormley's famous Angel of the North at Gateshead.

A working group is chaired by Bill Richards, former canon of Malvern Priory, who said: "It will express a sense of county pride and identity.

"It's a steel structure, and all the work to do with the construction represents the engineering tradition in the north of our county, while a pear tree represents the rural economy of the south."

See the Worcestershire Pear Tree as a 3D 'fly through' created by CGD Ltd