Pawn Garden


Garden 4 - cropped

 

World’s largest Chess Pawn!

Height – 26 feet

Outside diameter of the head – 9.5 feet

Base width – 13.5 feet

Total number of 23.75#  blocks – 506 – weighing about 12,000 pounds

Two foot pathway around the pawn – 4,000 pounds of red breeze

Dirt – 15,000 pounds

Crushed granite for base and drainage – 9,000 pounds

Flagstone on top of dirt – 600 pounds

Total weight – Just over 40,000 pounds, or 20 tons!

See the Pawn Garden here in an article about World Chess Records