Christ Child
The sculpture in 2008
Year	1999; 25 years ago (1999)
Type	Sculpture
Medium	Portland stone
Subject	Jesus
Location	London, WC2 United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°30′32″N 0°07′37″W / 51.508845°N 0.127009°W / 51.508845; -0.127009

Christ Child, also known as In the Beginning or the Millennium Sculpture,^[1] is an outdoor sculpture by Michael "Mike" Chapman, located under the portico of St Martins-in-the-Fields at Trafalgar Square in London, United Kingdom. The opening text from the Gospel of John is inscribed around the sculpture: "In the beginning was the word and the word became flesh and lived among us".^[1] Chapman has said of the sculpture: "For the millennium I was commissioned to produce a sculpture to be placed in Trafalgar square, during Christmas prior to the celebrations. It seemed to me that a tiny life-size baby carved from stone in such an enormous environment would be the best way to remind us all of just whose birthday we were celebrating. In a 4.5 tonne block of Portland stone, this work can be found at the entrance to the church."^[2] It has been called "strikingly modern".^[3]

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  Detail

See also

• 1999 in art

References

External links

• Media related to In the Beginning (sculpture) at Wikimedia Commons