BLAKE STATUE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1205747
Date first listed: 24-Mar-1950
Statutory Address: BLAKE STATUE, CORNHILL
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Location
Statutory Address: BLAKE STATUE, CORNHILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Somerset
District: Sedgemoor (District Authority)
Parish: Bridgwater
National Grid Reference: ST 29869 37045
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
BRIDGWATER
ST2937SE CORNHILL
736-1/10/45 Blake Statue
24/03/50
GV II*
Statue of Admiral Blake. 1898. By D W Pomeroy. Bronze,
limestone and granite. A vigorous more-than-lifesize figure in
C17 costume, repositioned from the front of the Corn Exchange
(qv) to face down Cornhill, has its right arm outstretched and
points toward Christ Church Unitarian Chapel in Dampiet Street
(qv); it stands on a square base above a corniced granite
plinth with recessed square panels to each side; lively
finely-detailed bronze low-relief scenes to the rear and sides
depict the Admiral's victories at sea and the return of his
body to Plymouth Sound in 1657; an inscription to the front
reads "Robert Blake born in this town 1598 died at sea 1657".
The base is of granite steps raised on a C20 circular brick
dais.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: South and West Somerset:
London: 1958-: 98).
Listing NGR: ST2987037046
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 373861
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958), 98
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing