Compassion statue - Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, U.K.
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This cast bronze sculpture was original located outside the Selly Oak Hospital out-patients department in Birmingham.
Waymark Code: WM120N9
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/25/2020
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This cast bronze sculpture, by Uli Nimptsch, was original located in a garden outside the Selly Hospital out-patients department in Birmingham. It was moved in 2014 to a position alongside a footpath between the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the University of Birmingham in Edgbaston. The cost of moving the sculpture was covered by the Charles Henry Foyle Trust; the Trust which originally donated the sculpture to the Selly Oak Hospital.
The sculpture is also known as ‘The Good Samaritan” as it is said to be based on the biblical parable (Luke 10:25- 37). The base of the sculpture is inscribed with lines from the poem ‘A Correct Compassion’ by James Falconer Kirkup, which was dedicated to Mr Philip Allison after the poet watched Mr Allison perform a Mitral Stenosis Valvotomy operation in Leeds General Hospital.
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The lines quoted are:
‘WITH PROPER GRACE
INFORMING A CORRECT COMPASSION, THAT PERFORMS
ITS LOVE, AND MAKES IT LIVE.’
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The dedication of the sculpture on the supporting plinth is shown below:
‘*COMPASSION*
THIS STATUE WAS COMMISSIONED
AND PRESENTED TO
SELLY OAK HOSPITAL
BY THE
CHARLES HENRY FOYLE TRUST
ON THE SUGGESTION OF
ONE OF THE ORIGINAL TRUSTEES
THE LATE SIR ALBERT BRADBEER
1963’
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