MONUMENT TO JOHN VAUGHAN

MONUMENT TO JOHN VAUGHAN, VICTORIA SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1329504
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT TO JOHN VAUGHAN
Statutory Address:: MONUMENT TO JOHN VAUGHAN, VICTORIA SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1329504
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT TO JOHN VAUGHAN
Statutory Address 1:: MONUMENT TO JOHN VAUGHAN, VICTORIA SQUARE

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

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Location

Statutory Address:: MONUMENT TO JOHN VAUGHAN, VICTORIA SQUARE

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District:: Middlesbrough (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ4961420171

Details

NZ 4920 SE 9/89

MIDDLESBROUGH VICTORIA SQUARE, south end. Monument to John Vaughan.

II G.V.

Monument, dated 1884, to John Vaughan, by G.A. Lawson. Bronze figure and tablets; roughly dressed ironstone pedestal and plinth. Standing male figure with coat draped over left arm, on shallow pedestal and deep slightly-tapered plinth. Relief-sculptured tablet in each face of pedestal depicting: ironstone mine, ironworks, iron-rolling mill, and railway. Renewed tablet on north face of plinth inscribed: "JOHN VAUGHAN 1799-1868. MAYOR OF MIDDLESBROUGH 1855. DISCOVERED IRONSTONE IN THE CLEVELAND HILLS. FOUNDER OF THE IRON TRADE IN CLEVELAND. PARTNER IN BOLCKOW, VAUGHAN & CO. LTD., WHO BUILT ONE OF THE FIRST IRON WORKS IN MIDDLESBROUGH IN 1840". Originally sited in Exchange Place; moved here 1914. Included for historic interest.

Listing NGR: NZ4961420171

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Legacy System number:: 59800
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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.