STATUE OF WILLIAM HARVEY ON PLINTH

STATUE OF WILLIAM HARVEY ON PLINTH, THE LEAS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281488
Date first listed:: 11-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF WILLIAM HARVEY ON PLINTH
Statutory Address:: STATUE OF WILLIAM HARVEY ON PLINTH, THE LEAS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281488
Date first listed:: 11-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF WILLIAM HARVEY ON PLINTH
Statutory Address 1:: STATUE OF WILLIAM HARVEY ON PLINTH, THE LEAS

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:: STATUE OF WILLIAM HARVEY ON PLINTH, THE LEAS

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

County:: Kent
District:: Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
Parish:: Folkestone
National Grid Reference:: TR 22340 35537

Details

1. 5281 THE LEAS FOLKESTONE Statue of William Harvey on plinth TR 2255 NW 5/199 II 2. William Harvey, the discoverer of the Circulation of the Blood was born in Folkestone. The bronze statue was made by A B Joy in 1881. It is a full length figure in Cl7 costume, set on a stone plinth. One hand symbolically touches his heart.

Listing NGR: TR2234035537

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Legacy System number:: 175386
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.