Statue of Richard Cobden
STATUE OF RICHARD COBDEN, CAMDEN HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272429
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Statue of Richard Cobden
- Statutory Address:
- STATUE OF RICHARD COBDEN, CAMDEN HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272429
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Statue of Richard Cobden
- Statutory Address 1:
- STATUE OF RICHARD COBDEN, CAMDEN HIGH STREET
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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:
- STATUE OF RICHARD COBDEN, CAMDEN HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 29180 83403
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2983SW CAMDEN HIGH STREET
798-1/83/154 Statue of Richard Cobden
14/05/74
GV II
Statue. c1868. By W and T Wills. Sicilian marble. Figure of
Cobden (badly weathered) in contemporary dress with right hand
raised and holding papers in left hand; standing on an
inscribed pedestal with side panels having carved swags. Base
inscribed "Cornlaws repealed 1846". HISTORICAL NOTE: Richard
Cobden, MP, led the successful campaign for the repeal of the
Corn Laws in the 1840s. The statue was erected by public
subscription 3 years after his death; inscription records that
Napoleon III was the principal contributor, for Cobden had
been instrumental in establishing a free trade treaty with
France in 1860.
Listing NGR: TQ2918083403
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476809
- 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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