Abraham Lincoln Statue / Abraham Lincoln Statue To South Of Platt Hall

Date:: 28 Aug 2000

Location:: Abraham Lincoln Statue, Brazennose Street, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M14 5NE; Show all locations

Abraham Lincoln Statue To South Of Platt Hall, Platt Fields Park, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M14 5NE

Abraham Lincoln Statue, Lincoln Square, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M14 5NE

Reference:: IOE01/01463/07

Type:: Photograph (Digital)

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Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

MANCHESTER

SJ8398SE BRAZENNOSE STREET 698-1/1/869 (South side) 03/10/74 Abraham Lincoln Statue (Formerly Listed as: PLATT FIELDS PARK, Fallowfield Abraham Lincoln Statue to south of Platt Hall)

II

Statue. 1919. By George Gray Barnard. Bronze. Over-life-size statue on high late C20 plinth. This statue by the American sculptor George Gray Barnard (1863-1938) is another cast of that installed in Lytle Park, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1917 and was given to the City of Manchester in 1919 by Mr and Mrs Charles Phelps Taft, of Cincinnati, the Sulgrave Institution, and the Anglo-American Society. Since a suitable city -centre site could not be found it was set in Platt Fields Park and then was resited in Lincoln Square in 1986.

Listing NGR: SJ8369598134

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1094 IOE Records taken by Leo Jacobs; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project

People & Organisations

Photographer: Jacobs, Leo

Rights Holder: Jacobs, Leo

Keywords

Bronze, 20th Century Statue, Gardens Parks And Urban Spaces, Sculpture, Garden Ornament, Street Furniture