Detail view showing the decapitated statue which is carved wearing a scarf across the upper part of its body in the gardens of Purbeck House

Date:: 1958

Location:: Purbeck House (C), Convent Of Our Lady Of Mercy (A), 91 High Street, Swanage, Purbeck, Dorset

Reference:: DT01206

Type:: Photograph (Negative)

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A print of this image appears in the RCHME Inventory Notes for Swanage. This image is printed in the RCHME Inventory volume, Dorset II - South-East, Part 1. This statue, suggested in the RCHME Inventory Notes for Swanage to be Charles II, was part of a series of kings and queens which decorated the Royal Exchange until burnt down in 1836. The statue's arms, legs and head are missing.

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This is part of the Sub-Series: RCH01/093/03 Rchme Inventory Of Dorset, Volume Ii, South-East: Glass Plate Negatives; within the Series: RCH01/093 Rchme Inventory Of Dorset, Volume Ii, South-East; within the Sub-Collection: RCH01/01 Rchme Inventory Volumes; within the Collection: RCH01 Royal Commission On The Historical Monuments Of England (Rchme) Archive

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Stuart Statue