SALISBURY Cathedral’s Morning Chapel provides a temporary home for Charlotte Mayer’s stunning bronze sculpture, The Thornflower, for the next six months.

The Thornflower evolved from the sculptor’s reflections on the death of her grandmother in Treblinka and “man’s inhumanity to man at other times” and takes the form of three petal-like diametrically opposite configurations, created from the shapes of crescent moons.

These are held high by five stems of brutal thorns set into a circular bronze base.

“Making a piece of sculpture does not usually include writing a story,” says Charlotte, “but The Thornflower is more than just a piece of sculpture, it is the story of a journey from duality to unity. It is also, in part, a story of healing.”

The sculpture will be on display during Remembrance Day and Holocaust Memorial Day.