STATUE OF HENRY SCHNEIDER

STATUE OF HENRY SCHNEIDER, DUKE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1283025
Date first listed:: 06-May-1976
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF HENRY SCHNEIDER
Statutory Address:: STATUE OF HENRY SCHNEIDER, DUKE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1283025
Date first listed:: 06-May-1976
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF HENRY SCHNEIDER
Statutory Address 1:: STATUE OF HENRY SCHNEIDER, DUKE STREET

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 HENRY SCHNEIDER, DUKE STREET

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

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD1992769020

Details

SD1969SE 708-1/12/65 06/05/76

BARROW IN FURNESS DUKE STREET Statue of Henry Schneider

GV II

Statue. 1891. Sculptor: Percy Wood. Bronze on granite pedestal. 2-step stylobate to cylindrical pedestal inscribed: 'IN HONOR/ OF HENRY WILLIAM SCHNEIDER/ MAYOR OF THIS BOROUGH/ 1875 TO 1878/ ERECTED/ BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION/ 1891'; Vitruvian scroll beneath cornice. Robed figure of Schneider faced up Duke Street. Schneider, Hannay and Co built the first blast furnaces in Barrow between 1857-59 then amalgamated with James Ramsden's company to form the Barrow Haematite Iron and Steel Company in 1866. Using the Bessemer process this became by 1876, the biggest iron and steel plant in the world. His life is chronicled elsewhere. Centrepiece of Schneider Square. (Barnes F: Barrow and District: Barrow in Furness: 1967-: 96; Banks A G: H W Schneider of Barrow and Bowness: Kendal: 1984-).

Listing NGR: SD1992769020

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Legacy System number:: 388463
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Banks, A G, HW Schneider of Barrow and Bowness, (1984)
Barnes, F , Barrow and District, (1968), 96

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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.