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Latitude: 52.9132 / 52°54'47"N
Longitude: -4.0992 / 4°5'57"W
OS Eastings: 258940
OS Northings: 337152
OS Grid: SH589371
Mapcode National: GBR 5R.NDQM
Mapcode Global: WH55T.018G
Plus Code: 9C4QWW72+78
Entry Name: Hercules Statue
Listing Date: 14 January 1971
Last Amended: 23 August 2002
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 4890
Building Class: Commemorative
Also known as: Hercules Statue
ID on this website: 300004890
Location: Opposite the Town Hall and Hercules Gates, at the top of the Hercules Steps.
County: Gwynedd
Community: Penrhyndeudraeth
Community: Penrhyndeudraeth
Locality: Portmeirion
Traditional County: Merionethshire
Tagged with: Statue
Portmeirion was designed and laid out by the celebrated architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis (1883-1978) following his purchase of the estate, then called Aber Iâ, in 1926. The village evolved over several decades and was still being added to in the 1970s.
Bronze statue of Hercules by William Brodie (1815-1881), cast c1863. Erected in this location in 1960.
Life-sized bronze statue of Hercules carrying the globe; on a tall, 2-stage rendered pedestal. A plaque is affixed dedicated "to the summer of 1959, in honour of its splendour"; other plaques to 1971,73 and 75.
Listed as one of a number of buildings and structures designed or erected by the eminent architect and conservationist Sir Clough Williams-Ellis for his visionary Portmeirion villiage.
Group value with other listed items at Portmeirion.
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