STONE STATUES SET IN LIBRARY, SHREWSBURY SCHOOL

STONE STATUES SET IN LIBRARY, SHREWSBURY SCHOOL, ASHTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246455
Date first listed:: 19-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: STONE STATUES SET IN LIBRARY, SHREWSBURY SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: STONE STATUES SET IN LIBRARY, SHREWSBURY SCHOOL, ASHTON ROAD

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Date:: 2002-07-25
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1246455
Date first listed:: 19-Sep-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: STONE STATUES SET IN LIBRARY, SHREWSBURY SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: STONE STATUES SET IN LIBRARY, SHREWSBURY SCHOOL, ASHTON ROAD

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:: STONE STATUES SET IN LIBRARY, SHREWSBURY SCHOOL, ASHTON ROAD

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Shrewsbury
National Grid Reference:: SJ 48419 12139

Details

SHREWSBURY

SJ41SE ASHTON ROAD 653-1/4/85 (West side (off)) 19/09/72 Stone statues set in Library, Shrewsbury School (Formerly Listed as: Stone statues of Philomathes and Polymathes set... in Shrewsbury School)

II

Statues of Philomathes and Polymathes set into gable wall of library. Early C17, resited. Sandstone. 2 figures in costume of the period in aedicule with shell niches between fluted Ionic pilasters. Greek inscriptions and obelisks and strapwork over. Underneath is the royal coat of arms and an inscription tablet recording: "His ego fundamen domitus quas, advena, cernis testificor refis me positum esse manu: nec tamen ipse aderat: vis cominus ignem tactu emicat in Jussum subsideoque locum. Adv non IVI anno. Scolae condite CCC LXIII".

Listing NGR: SJ4841912139

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Legacy System number:: 455081
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.