Statue of Richard Cobden

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:
STATUE OF RICHARD COBDEN, CAMDEN HIGH STREET
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Date:
2004-10-30
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Official list entry

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

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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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

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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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2025. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2025. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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