STATUE TO SIR CHARLES MARK PALMER

STATUE TO SIR CHARLES MARK PALMER, GRANGE ROAD

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Statue to Sir Charles Mark Palmer erected in 1903, by Albert Toft. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1355095
Date first listed:: 26-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: STATUE TO SIR CHARLES MARK PALMER
Statutory Address:: STATUE TO SIR CHARLES MARK PALMER, GRANGE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1355095
Date first listed:: 26-Feb-1985
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Dec-2007
List Entry Name:: STATUE TO SIR CHARLES MARK PALMER
Statutory Address 1:: STATUE TO SIR CHARLES MARK PALMER, GRANGE ROAD

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 TO SIR CHARLES MARK PALMER, GRANGE ROAD

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

District:: South Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ3274965309

Details

JARROW

388/1/100 GRANGE ROAD (South side) STATUE TO SIR CHARLES MARK PALMER

(Formerly listed as: TYNE STREET STATUE TO SIR CHARLES MARK PALMER, EAST OF TYNE PEDESTRIAN TUNNEL ENTRANCE)

26-FEB-85

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Statue to Sir Charles Mark Palmer erected in 1903, by Albert Toft.

MATERIALS: Bronze figure on a Portland stone pedestal with low relief bronze panels.

EXTERIOR: The pedestal is rectangular with panels on each side. The north face bears the inscription: 'SIR/CHARLES MARK PALMER/BARONET/BORN AT SOUTH SHIELDS/NOVEMBER 3RD 1822/FOUNDER OF THE PALMER/WORKS & OF THE TOWN OF/JARROW OF WHICH HE WAS/FIRST MAYOR in 1875/ORIGINATOR OF THE FIRST/STEAM SCREW COLLIER/BUILT AT JARROW IN 1851/MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT/FOR NORTH DURHAM FROM/1874 AND SUBSEQUENTLY/FOR THE JARROW DIVISION/THIS STATUE ERECTED IN/1903 BY THE WORKMEN OF/PALMER'S COMPANY AND A FEW/ FRIENDS COMMEMORATES/A LIFE DEVOTED TO THE/SOCIAL ADVANCEMENT OF/THE WORKING CLASSES. THE/PROSPERITY OF JARROW/AND THE INDUSTRIAL/PROGRESS OF/TYNESIDE' The east face carries a replacement relief of the SS John Bowes. The south face depicts a coal miner and the west face depicts a replacement relief of HMS Resolution. There is a freestanding Ionic column at each corner supporting the frieze and an overhanging cornice. The whole is placed on a square stepped base with blind inset panels on each face.

HISTORY: The statue was designed by the renowned sculptor Albert Arthur Toft who has an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and a number of listed buildings to his name. It commemorates Sir Charles Mark Palmer (1822-1907), Victorian coal owner, ironmaster and shipbuilder as well as benefactor to the town of Jarrow. Palmer first became responsible for the expansion of the Marley Hill Coal Company, which, by the mid 1850s owned fourteen collieries producing a million tons of coal annually. With his brother, he leased a shipyard near to the important Jarrow staithes in order to control the company's coal and coke shipments. In 1852 they launched the John Bowes, the first screw propelled water-ballasted collier, which first carried 650 tons of coal to London and back within five days. The shipyard soon produced many colliers, which enabled the coastal coal trade to compete with rail haulage and revolutionised the Tyne-London coal trade. He achieved success in war-ship building also and later built cargo vessels, oil tankers and passenger ships and later moved into shipping lines and became the first Chairman of the Tyne Shipping Company in 1864. Palmer further diversified into ironstone mines and established an iron, boiler and engine works at Jarrow giving him total industrial integration, manufacturing ships from their basic raw materials. By the 1880s, Palmer's Iron and Shipbuilding Company was the largest such concern in the country.

Palmer is also known as a great benefactor to the town of Jarrow and a responsible employer who supported the Mechanics' Institute, schools, churches and hospitals. Through his works' building society, nearly half of the town's houses became owner-occupied and he was the first Mayor as well as MP for Jarrow until his death in 1907.

SOURCES: Stafford M. Linsley, `Palmer, Sir Charles Mark, first baronet (1822-1907), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35369, accessed 8 Oct 2007]; Mark Stocker, `Toft, Albert Arthur (1862-1949), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Oct 2007 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/38293, accessed 8 Oct 2007]

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: This statue is designated for the following principal reasons:

* It is a well-executed statue in bronze and Portland stone by the sculptor Albert Arthur Toft * It commemorates the nationally renowned Victorian industrialist and local benefactor Sir Charles Mark Palmer * It is an imposing monument to a local industrialist who had strong ties to the town of Jarrow, its people and its prosperity.

Listing NGR: NZ3274965309

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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.