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Donington
Lincolnshire
East Midlands

Church Street ☒
(St. Mary & the Holy Rood Church)

Matthew Flinders

Captain Matthew Flinders RN
Donington 1774 - London 1814
English navigator and cartographer, who was the first to circumnavigate Australia and identify it as a continent
(Wikipedia)

Arthur Fleischmann
date?

Description

Bronze bust of Flinders in the church.

Information Sign

matthew flinders
by Arthur Fleischmann
on loan from
south holland district council

Annotation

St Marys church in Donington hosts a display dedicated to Matthew Flinders. It includes a stained glass window, a bust and a first edition of A Voyage to Terra Australis.

Sculptor

Arthur Fleischmann (Bratislava 1896 - Tenerife 1990), British sculptor (Website).

Locatie (N 52°54'26" - W 0°12'17") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: gbem028; Photograph: 1 August 2012
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