THE FIELDEN STATUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1314073
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:: THE FIELDEN STATUE
Statutory Address:: THE FIELDEN STATUE

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Date:: 2001-02-06
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1314073
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:: THE FIELDEN STATUE
Statutory Address 1:: THE FIELDEN STATUE

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

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

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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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:: THE FIELDEN STATUE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Todmorden
National Grid Reference:: SD 93138 24620

Details

TODMORDEN

SD 9324 SD 931246 CENTRE VALE PARK 92/6/75 The Fielden Statue 22.2.84 II Statue of John Fielden MP. In celebration of the 'Ten Hours Act' 1847, by J H Foley, RA. Designed 1863, cast and delivered 1869. Cast in bronze by Elkington and C. (Founders). Stands on granite plinth inscribed with the date of his birth, 17th January 1784 on one face and his death, 29 May 1849 on another. Standing figure in contemporary dress holding a document (probably the 'Ten Hours Act' which Fielden initiated). Originally sited on the side of the T own Hall then moved to Fielden Square prior to its present position. N Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (London 1979), p. 522.

Listing NGR: SD9313824620

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Legacy System number:: 339059
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 522

Legal

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