Cromer Prospect, the North Norfolk seaside town's exciting new £200,000 public art scheme has been completed. The scheme is supported by £152,000 Lottery funding through Arts Council England, East.

Cromer Prospect is part of a larger seafront enhancement scheme, contributing to the wider regeneration of the Cromer area, developed by North Norfolk District Council and the Cromer Regeneration Partnership.

The seafront improvements include a series of art installations that celebrate 200 years of Cromer's lifeboats, featuring atmospheric lighting that brings the seafront alive at night, the extension and refurbishment of the Cromer Pavilion Theatre and renovation of the pier entrance, for the Cromer Pavilion Theatre Pier Show, plus new lighting along the promenade (all work finished), as well as the new RNLI museum, to be completed later this year.

The new RNLI museum, with restaurant, cliff lift and toilets is currently under construction on the site of the 'Rocket House', to the east of the pier. The museum will feature ceramic panels created by local artist, Stephen Parry. These ceramic works were also commissioned as a part of the overall Cromer Prospect project.

The public art scheme is part of a larger seafront enhancement project, contributing to the wider regeneration of the Cromer area, developed by North Norfolk District Council and the Cromer Regeneration Partnership.

David Ward, Cromer Prospect lead artist, has worked with many people on a permanent installation that celebrates the town's principal lifeboats set in Cromer Pier's forecourt. Twenty-four granite stones, each one representing a lifeboat, have been set along lines looking out to sea, pointing in the direction of rescue missions. The scheme has been developed by Landscape Designer, Shaun Ruffles.

A great compass is at the heart of the forecourt display. The lines radiate out to sea from the compass through the granite 'standing stones'. The design is based on the compass in the HF Bailey lifeboat, which can be seen in Cromer's RNLI museum. The names of each lifeboat, ship rescue, date of the rescue and the numbers of lives saved, have been cut and inlaid into granite lines stretching from the compass to the standing stones. Ray Carpenter has designed the unique typeface for the lettering.

Cromer Prospect is transformed at night with atmospheric lighting. Each 'standing stone' is uplit with star-like lights. This acts as a reminder of the beacon that burned on the corner of Cromer Church tower before the first lighthouse was built. A golden light will also shine on the church tower to represent the beacon later this year.

The flint walls on the Victorian bastion above the pier have been uplit with occasional washes of light using soft colours, creating a lighting effect reminiscent of natural light effects and of watercolour paintings. The lighting has been developed by Cambridgeshire lighting designer Chris Baldwin.

Cromer inspired some of the UK's greatest 19th century literary figures including Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Gaskell and the poet AC Swinburne. To celebrate this link, their quotations about the area have been immortalised in stone rings on the seafront and in the town centre. The quotes have been cut and inlaid using Ray Carpenter's special Cromer Prospect typeface.