Coastal erosion sculpture outside cathedral derided as a 'pile of old wood'

The art installation - a depiction of a house tumbling into the sea - was created to highlight the threat posed by the climate emergency to British coastlines.

- Steven Morris

But some residents have compared the piece placed on a lawn outside Salisbury Cathedral to a pile of fly-tipped debris or an unlit bonfire and called for it to be removed, saying it is spoiling the view of one of England's most magnificent buildings.

The wooden sculpture, called Seaview, is described by its creator, the Salford-based artist Hilary Jack, as a "dramatic visual representation of the sea reclaiming homes from the coastline in Norfolk".

Another of her pieces, Turquoise Bag in a Tree, a bronze cast of a plastic bag placed in branches, is on show in the cathedral's cloisters as part of an exhibition called Our Earth. But it is Seaview that seems to be causing the most concern.

In a letter to the Salisbury Journal, one resident, Peter Darling, said: "The reaction that I had when I first saw the pile of wood stacked up in front of the cathedral was that the close had been visited by fly-tippers.