STATUE OF SAMUEL MORLEY

STATUE OF SAMUEL MORLEY, LEWINS MEAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1293074
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF SAMUEL MORLEY
Statutory Address:: STATUE OF SAMUEL MORLEY, LEWINS MEAD

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Date:: 2001-06-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1293074
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF SAMUEL MORLEY
Statutory Address 1:: STATUE OF SAMUEL MORLEY, LEWINS MEAD

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:: STATUE OF SAMUEL MORLEY, LEWINS MEAD

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

District:: City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST5871773265

Details

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 July 2024 to correction the address to Lewins Mead and added a sentence about when it was moved. The GIS triangle depiction was moved 270 metres south-west from ST5895873385 to ST5871773265, thus placing it on the structure. The grid reference was removed from the Details text.

BRISTOL

ST5873SE

901-1/11/494

LEWINS MEAD, Broadmead (South side)

Statue of Samuel Morley

(Formerly Listed as: HORSEFAIR Statue of Samuel Morley)

04/03/77

GV

II

Statue of Samuel Morley. Unveiled 1887. Carved by J Howard Thomas. Granite base and marble statue. A round grey granite base, square red granite moulded plinth and statue on top.

HISTORICAL NOTE: Morley was an MP from 1858-1885. Moved from beside Bristol Bridge in 1921. Moved from Horsefair to Lewins Mead in 1997.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 379799
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.