STATUE OF JONAS WEBB OPPOSITE CHALK FARMHOUSE

STATUE OF JONAS WEBB OPPOSITE CHALK FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1331112
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF JONAS WEBB OPPOSITE CHALK FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: STATUE OF JONAS WEBB OPPOSITE CHALK FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1331112
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF JONAS WEBB OPPOSITE CHALK FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: STATUE OF JONAS WEBB OPPOSITE CHALK FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: STATUE OF JONAS WEBB OPPOSITE CHALK FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Babraham
National Grid Reference:: TL 51285 50347

Details

TL 5050 BABRAHAM HIGH STREET (North-West Side) 8/49 Statue of Jonas Webb opposite Chalk Farmhouse

GV II

Statue. Late C19. By Marochetti. Bronze on plain granite pedestal. Inscribed 'Jonas Webb of Babraham, Born Nov 10 1796, Died Nov 10 1862. By Farmers and Friends in many lands'. Jonas Webb was noted for breeding Babraham Southdown sheep which achieved an international reputation. He lived at Church Farmhouse, Babraham.

Baines, S. Jonas Webb of Babraham

Listing NGR: TL5128550347

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Legacy System number:: 51835
Legacy System:: LBS

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Barnes, S, Jonas Webb of Babraham

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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.