BISHOP HOOPER'S MONUMENT

BISHOP HOOPER'S MONUMENT, ST MARY'S SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245667
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: BISHOP HOOPER'S MONUMENT
Statutory Address:: BISHOP HOOPER'S MONUMENT, ST MARY'S SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245667
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: BISHOP HOOPER'S MONUMENT
Statutory Address 1:: BISHOP HOOPER'S MONUMENT, ST MARY'S SQUARE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BISHOP HOOPER'S MONUMENT, ST MARY'S SQUARE

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Gloucester (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 82988 18880

Details

SO8218NE 844-1/7/325

GLOUCESTER ST MARY'S SQUARE (West side) Bishop Hooper's Monument 23/01/52 GV II Monument commemorating Bishop Hooper on the site where the bishop was burnt at the stake in 1555. 1861-63. By Medland and Maberley. Ashlar. A "tabernacle" canopy, in a Decorated Gothic style, containing a slightly larger than life size statue of the bishop by Edward W Thornhill of Dublin. Paid for by public subscription. EXTERIOR: square base, with moulded plinth and weathered top, rising from the base at each corner buttressed piers, crowned by pinnacles at each corner and on each side between the piers an open, foiled arch and gablet; all crowned by a tall, crocketed spire with finial; within the canopy on an arcaded base the standing statue of the bishop facing east.

Listing NGR: SO8298818880

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Legacy System number:: 472426
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.