THREE STANDING FIGURES, BATTERSEA PARK LAKESIDE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1357691
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: THREE STANDING FIGURES, BATTERSEA PARK LAKESIDE
Statutory Address:: THREE STANDING FIGURES, BATTERSEA PARK LAKESIDE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1357691
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: THREE STANDING FIGURES, BATTERSEA PARK LAKESIDE
Statutory Address 1:: THREE STANDING FIGURES, BATTERSEA PARK LAKESIDE

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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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:: THREE STANDING FIGURES, BATTERSEA PARK LAKESIDE

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Wandsworth (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 28178 77118

Details

LONDON BOROUGH OF WANDSWORTH Battersea Park (lakeside) TW 27NE 'Three Standing Figures' 2/11 II

Sculpture. 'Three standing figures'. 1948. Henry Moore. Darley Dale Stone on low stone plinth. Site chosen by the sculpter 1950. Exhibited at the London County Council's first Open-Air Sculpture Exhibition, Battersea Park 1948, and afterwards presented to the Council by the Contemporary Art Society. 'these disturbing figures...., a synthesis of the abstract and the Organic..,are the expression in sculpture of what Moore has described as 'the group feeling' of the Shelter drawings'. Philip James, Henry Moore on Sculpture,1966

Listing NGR: TQ2817877118

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Legacy System number:: 207209
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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James, P, Henry Moore on Sculpture, (1966)
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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London

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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.