SCULPTURAL GROUP ADRIFT TO SOUTH-WEST OF CENTRAL PUBLIC LIBRARY, PETER STREET, MANCHESTER

SCULPTURAL GROUP ADRIFT TO SOUTH-WEST OF CENTRAL LIBRARY, PETER STREET, MANCHESTER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271096
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: SCULPTURAL GROUP ADRIFT TO SOUTH-WEST OF CENTRAL PUBLIC LIBRARY, PETER STREET, MANCHESTER
Statutory Address:: SCULPTURAL GROUP ADRIFT TO SOUTH-WEST OF CENTRAL LIBRARY, PETER STREET, MANCHESTER

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271096
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: SCULPTURAL GROUP ADRIFT TO SOUTH-WEST OF CENTRAL PUBLIC LIBRARY, PETER STREET, MANCHESTER
Statutory Address 1:: SCULPTURAL GROUP ADRIFT TO SOUTH-WEST OF CENTRAL LIBRARY, PETER STREET, MANCHESTER

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:: SCULPTURAL GROUP ADRIFT TO SOUTH-WEST OF CENTRAL LIBRARY, PETER STREET, MANCHESTER

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

District:: Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ8382797935

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/05/2016

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MANCHESTER PETER STREET Sculptural group Adrift to south-west of Central Public Library

(Formerly listed as: PORTLAND STREET (West side) Sculptural group Adrift at east end of Piccadilly Gardens, previously listed as: PICCADILLY(South side) Sculptural group "Adrift" at west [sic] side of Piccadilly Gardens)

03/10/74

GV II Allegorical sculptural composition. 1907, by John Cassidy. Bronze. Male figure standing on a rock waving a piece of cloth, his wife and children lying exhausted below (apparently survivors of a shipping accident). The statue has been relocated several times and was re-erected adjacent to the Central Public Library in October 2014.

Listing NGR: SJ8382797935

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 456062
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.