CORBET MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177900
Date first listed:: 29-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:: CORBET MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW
Statutory Address:: CORBET MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177900
Date first listed:: 29-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:: CORBET MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW
Statutory Address 1:: CORBET MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CORBET MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 15 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF CHURCH OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW

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District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Moreton Corbet and Lee Brockhurst
National Grid Reference:: SJ 56090 23239

Details

SJ 5623-5723 MORETON CORBET C.P. MORETON CORBET

18/65 Corbet memorial - approx. 15 metres to south-west of Church of Saint Bartholomew

GV II

Churchyard memorial. Sculpture dated 1904 and signed by John H. M. Furse (b.1860). Marble pedestal with bronze sculpture. Pedestal with moulded plinth, moulded cornice, and cap with acanthus leaves at corners. Figure of Mercury, inscribed: "I.H.M. FURSE 1904". Front of pedestal with carved oak festoon, elephant and castle and squirrel, and inscribed: "VIRTUTIS LAUS AG/TIO/DUM/SPIRO/SPERO". Rear with carved swag and raven and inscribed "DEUS PASCIT CORVOS". Sides with carved wreaths. Left-hand side inscribed "To the/dear memory of/Vincent Stewart/Corbet/ B.January 27 1890/D. At Eton College/October 17 1903". Also in memory of Walter Orlando Corbet (d.1910) and Roland James Corbet (1915). Vincent Corbet died of appendicitis. This is a rare example of a sculpture. of metropolitan Post-Gilbert style in a country churchyard. Colonel Maurice Harold Grant, A Dictionary of British Sculptors, Rodcliff (1953) p.102; The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940, Antique Collectors' Club (1976), p.190; S. Beatty, New Sculpture.

Listing NGR: SJ5609023239

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Legacy System number:: 260059
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Antique Collectors Club, , The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940, (1976), 190
Beattie, S , The New Sculpture, (1983)
Grant, M H, A Dictionary of British Sculptors, (1953), 102

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.