Sunderland, Mowbray extension park, statue of J. Candlish MP

HER Number:
4811

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Mowbray extension park, statue of J. Candlish MP

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces

Site Type: Broad:
Sculpture

Site Type: Specific:
Statue

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

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:
3986

Northing:
5658

Grid Reference:
NZ39865658

Lats/Lons:

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