STATUE OF JAMES STEEL

STATUE OF JAMES STEEL, ENGLISH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196942
Date first listed:: 13-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF JAMES STEEL
Statutory Address:: STATUE OF JAMES STEEL, ENGLISH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196942
Date first listed:: 13-Nov-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF JAMES STEEL
Statutory Address 1:: STATUE OF JAMES STEEL, ENGLISH 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 JAMES STEEL, ENGLISH STREET

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

District:: Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NY4010955833

Details

CARLISLE

NY4055 ENGLISH STREET 671-1/12/127 (West side) 13/11/72 Statue of James Steel (Formerly Listed as: Steel Monument)

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Statue of James Steel. 1859 for the subscribers, by WF Woodington. Dalbeattie granite base and plinth surmounted by white marble figure. Square base with 4 angle granite bollards. Stepped plinth, the shaft inscribed JAMES STEEL MAYOR 1845 AND 1846, in 3 lines. Larger-than-life bare-headed figure in breeches and frock coat, holding a scrolled paper; heavily weathered, cleaned in 1989; left hand broken off when moved to its present location on 6 August 1989. Formerly erected in the Market Place, for further details see Carlisle Journal (1858 and 1859); the unveiling was illustrated in the Illustrated London News. James Steel was editor of the Carlisle Journal. William Frederick Woodington (1806-93) was a prominent C19 figure sculptor whose best known work is the bronze relief of the Battle of the Nile at the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square. (Carlisle Journal: 1 October 1858; Carlisle Journal: 18 March 1859).

Listing NGR: NY4010955833

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Legacy System number:: 386725
Legacy System:: LBS

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'Carlisle Journal' in 1 October, (1858)
'Carlisle Journal' in 18 March, (1859)

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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.