A LECTERN and display case has been unveiled in honour of a woman who helped pay for a popular public artwork.

The Journey sculpture, which shows monks carrying the coffin of St Cuthbert, was installed in Millennium Place, Durham, in 2008 following a £250,000 fundraising campaign.

The total was reached following a large donation by Penny Richardson, made in memory of her late husband, Alderman Norman Richardson, a former mayor of Durham.

Today (Monday, July 15), the Very Reverend Michael Sadgrove, the Dean of Durham and chair of the Journey trustees, dedicated a new lectern and display case in her honour at Durham’s World Heritage Site visitor centre.

The case contains a book listing all donors to the appeal and Mr Richardson’s CBE medal.

Mr Richardson founded a tourism agency in Durham and helped establish a tourism qualification at New College Durham.

He served in various public roles and was given the freedom of the city.

Dean Sadgrove said it great to be able to celebrate the Journey’s major benefactors.

Mrs Richardson died in June 2011.

The Journey statue is a bronze cast of a wood piece by artist Fenwick Lawson which is kept on Lindisfarne.