STATUE OF WILLIAM IV AT EAST END OF CENTRAL WALK

MONTPELLIER GARDENS, CHELTENHAM

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1103872
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF WILLIAM IV AT EAST END OF CENTRAL WALK
Statutory Address:: MONTPELLIER GARDENS, CHELTENHAM

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1103872
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF WILLIAM IV AT EAST END OF CENTRAL WALK
Statutory Address 1:: MONTPELLIER GARDENS, CHELTENHAM

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MONTPELLIER GARDENS, CHELTENHAM

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County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cheltenham (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 94636 21777

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/01/2015

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CHELTENHAM, MONTPELLIER GARDENS, Statue of William IV at east end of Central Walk

14/12/83

GV II

Statue of William IV. 1833. Reputed to be by William M Gardner. Bath stone statue, painted. King shown in Robes of the Order of the Garter, with one hand on altar with crown. Plinth: stucco on brickwork. Inscription records, 'Erected at Imperial Nursery Gardens, the promenade 1833 by Public Subscription to Commemorate the Passing of the Reform Bill. Removed to Present site 1920'. Other, contemporary sources date the erection of the statue to 1831 and the donor as Thomas Henney. A rare statue of this monarch.

HISTORICAL NOTE: Montpellier Gardens were laid out by JB Papworth in 1825-6 for Pearson Thompson.

(Sampson A and Blake S: A Cheltenham Companion: Cheltenham: (1993), 120).

Listing NGR: SO9463621777

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Sampson, A, Blake, S , A Cheltenham Companion, (1993), 120

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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.