Trevithick Memorial Statue on Pavement in Front of Library
TREVITHICK MEMORIAL STATUE ON PAVEMENT IN FRONT OF LIBRARY, TREVENSON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1365624
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Trevithick Memorial Statue on Pavement in Front of Library
- Statutory Address:
- TREVITHICK MEMORIAL STATUE ON PAVEMENT IN FRONT OF LIBRARY, TREVENSON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1365624
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Trevithick Memorial Statue on Pavement in Front of Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- TREVITHICK MEMORIAL STATUE ON PAVEMENT IN FRONT OF LIBRARY, TREVENSON STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TREVITHICK MEMORIAL STATUE ON PAVEMENT IN FRONT OF LIBRARY, TREVENSON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Camborne
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 64804 39811
Details
CAMBORNE TREVENSON STREET SW 63 NW (north side) 10/103 Trevithick Memorial Statue on pavement in front of Library
GV II Memorial statue to Richard Trevithick (1771-1833), Engineer. Dated 1928; by L.S.Merrifield. White granite pedestal with bronze plaques and gilded bronze statue. Square section. Shallow step, deep plain base, tall pedestal with moulded plinth and cap surmounted by life-size statue. Each side of the plinth has a small bronze relief plaque: that on the back depicts a sail ship and is lettered:- RICHARD TREVITHICK INVENTOR OF THE LOCOMOTIVE BORN 1771 DIED 1833 The other plaques have kneeling female figures holding examples of the application of steam power, with identifying inscriptions: Cornish boiler on the front, Merthyr Tydfil Locomotive on the left side, and iron Steam and Sail Ship on the right-hand side.. The statue portrays Trevithick in forward striding pose with a pair of dividers in his raised right hand and a model of a steam locomotive cradled in his left arm. The base of the statue is inscribed "L.S.Merrifield" and "1928".
Listing NGR: SW6480439811
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66651
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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