PRINCE OF ORANGE STATUE

PRINCE OF ORANGE STATUE, THE STRAND

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1291780
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1949
List Entry Name:: PRINCE OF ORANGE STATUE
Statutory Address:: PRINCE OF ORANGE STATUE, THE STRAND

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1291780
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1949
List Entry Name:: PRINCE OF ORANGE STATUE
Statutory Address 1:: PRINCE OF ORANGE STATUE, THE STRAND

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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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:: PRINCE OF ORANGE STATUE, THE STRAND

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District:: Torbay (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Brixham
National Park:: N/A
National Grid Reference:: SX 92577 56227

Details

BRIXHAM

SX9256SE THE STRAND, Lower Brixham 1946-1/11/231 (North East side) 18/10/49 Prince of Orange Statue

GV II

White marble statue on a granite pedestal and plinth. 1888-9. By W & T Wills of London. Figure of William, Prince of Orange, right foot forward with left hand on chest, right hand holding large feathered hat; dressed in heavy overcoat and thigh boots. Plinth with 2 steps. Pedestal with moulded cap and base. On its SW face the incised inscription: WILLIAM PRINCE OF ORANGE, AFTERWARDS WILLIAM III, KING OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND, LANDED NEAR THIS SPOT 5TH NOVEMBER 1688 AND ISSUED HIS FAMOUS DECLARATION "THE LIBERTIES OF ENGLAND AND THE PROTESTANT RELIGION I WILL MAINTAIN". Beneath this is the sculptor's name. On the south-east face is the inscription: ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION AND DEDICATED TO THE TOWN OF BRIXHAM. FOUNDATION STONE LAID 5TH NOVBR 1888, BY HIS EXCELLENCY COUNT DE BYLANDT. UNVEILED 5TH NOVEMBER 1889. On the north-west face is the inscription: ENGELANDS VRIJHEID DOOR ORANJE HERSTELD. Old photographs show that the land on which the statue stands originally projected into the harbour and was protected by an iron railing. (Gregory C: Brixham in Devonia: Totnes: 1896-: 63).

Listing NGR: SX9257756227

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Gregory, C, Brixham in Devonia, (1896), 63

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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.