Pine Coffin Bust in Public Garden Adjoining South East Abutment of Bideford Bridge
PINE COFFIN BUST IN PUBLIC GARDEN ADJOINING SOUTH EAST ABUTMENT OF BIDEFORD BRIDGE, TORRINGTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200949
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Pine Coffin Bust in Public Garden Adjoining South East Abutment of Bideford Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- PINE COFFIN BUST IN PUBLIC GARDEN ADJOINING SOUTH EAST ABUTMENT OF BIDEFORD BRIDGE, TORRINGTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200949
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Pine Coffin Bust in Public Garden Adjoining South East Abutment of Bideford Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- PINE COFFIN BUST IN PUBLIC GARDEN ADJOINING SOUTH EAST ABUTMENT OF BIDEFORD BRIDGE, TORRINGTON STREET
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PINE COFFIN BUST IN PUBLIC GARDEN ADJOINING SOUTH EAST ABUTMENT OF BIDEFORD BRIDGE, TORRINGTON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bideford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS4565226384
Details
BIDEFORD
SS4526 TORRINGTON STREET, East-The-Water
842-1/7/265 (West side (off))
Pine-Coffin bust in public garden
adjoining SE abutment of Bideford
Bridge
GV II
Bust of John Richard Pine-Coffin. 1893. By FJ Williamson of
Esher, Surrey. White Sicilian marble on a pedestal of Cornish
granite with a white marble cornice; 2-tier plinth, the upper
tier of granite, the lower tier apparently of concrete. The
subject is shown dressed in what looks like a Roman toga, his
mustachioed head turned slightly to the left. On the front of
the pedestal in lead letters is the inscription: JOHN RICHARD
PINE-COFFIN ESQRE, J.P., D.L., A.C.C., OF PORTLEDGE, BIDEFORD,
BORN 1842. DIED 1890. ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION, AS A
TRIBUTE OF ESTEEM AND AFFECTION. 1893. The bust has the worn
signature: -WILLIAMSON, -HER, SURREY. J R Pine-Coffin (d
16.3.1890) belonged to a long-established local gentry family.
On his death, aged 48, the North Devon Journal described him
as 'an active politiciam and an energetic public servant' and
'nearly every shop in Bideford had either shutters up or
blinds drawn' for his funeral. He was Deputy Lieutenant of the
County, JP, County Alderman and Vice-Chairman of Bideford
Board of Guardians; also for several years President of
Bideford Conservative Association.
(North Devon Journal: 20.3.1890; 10.4.1890; Bideford Weekly
Gazette: 18.9.1894, P5; Who Was Who, 1916-1928: P.1131).
Listing NGR: SS4565226384
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375953
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Black, A, C, , Who Was Who 1911-1928, (), 1131
North Devon Journal in 10 April, (1890)
Bideford Weekly Gazette in 18 September, (1894), 5
North Devon Journal in 20 March, (1890)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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