Description

CARLISLE

NY4055NW THE CRESCENT
671-1/12/107 (North side)
13/11/72 Statue of Earl of Lonsdale

GV II

Statue. 1846 for the subscribers, signed M.L.WATSON, SCULPTOR.
Calciferous sandstone base, plinth and shaft; white marble
figure. Rusticated square base and plinth; shaft inscribed at
front in six lines WILLIAM EARL OF LONSDALE, LORD LIEUTENANT
OF CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND FROM 1802 TO 1844.
Larger-than-life figure dressed in robe and costume of the
Order of the Garter. A competition for the statue was held in
1845. Its original location was in English Street between the
Courthouses, where the foundation stone was laid in 1846, but
because of a dispute it was not erected until a year later,
(see Carlisle Journal 1845, 6 and 7). A photograph of the
statue being moved on 25 July 1929 is in Cumberland News, 19
September 1986. It was placed in its present location in the
Courthouse Gardens in 1930. For an illustration of the statue
and details of the sculptor, see Marshall Hall (1979).
(Carlisle Journal: 8 March 1845; Carlisle Journal: 24 October
1846; Carlisle Journal: 13 August 1847; Cumberland News: 19
September 1986; Marshall Hall: The Artists of Cumbria: 1979-:
P.93).

Listing NGR: NY4026655654

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584986

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  For the Record
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)