Mowbray extension park, statue of J. Candlish MP
Mowbray extension park, statue of J. Candlish MP
HER Number
4811
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Mowbray extension park, statue of J. Candlish MP
Place
Sunderland
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
Class
Commemorative
Site Type: Broad
Commemorative Monument
Site Type: Specific
Commemorative Monument
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Structure
Description
This statue is dated and signed C BACON Sc LONDON 1875, with the founder's mark H YOUNG & CO.ART FOUNDERS PLIMICO. It comprises a slightly larger than life-size figure, in contemporary dress, on a square plinth with a moulded stepped base of polished porphytritic granite. It bears the inscription: JOHN CANDLISH M.P. BORN 1815 DIED 1874. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
439860
Northing
556580
Grid Reference
NZ439860556580
Sources
<< HER 4811 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special … Interest; Ian Ayris, Peter Jubb, Steve Palmer and Paul Usherwood, 1996, A Guide to the Public Monuments and Sculpture of Tyne and Wear, p 44; Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 181-2