Abraham Lincoln Statue is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. A 20th century Statue.

Abraham Lincoln Statue

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Manchester
Country
England
Date first listed
3 October 1974
Type
Statue
Source
Historic England listing

Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8398SE BRAZENNOSE STREET 698-1/1/869 (South side) 03/10/74 Abraham Lincoln Statue (Formerly Listed as: PLATT FIELDS PARK, Fallowfield Abraham Lincoln Statue to south of Platt Hall)

II

Statue. 1919. By George Gray Barnard. Bronze. Over-life-size statue on high late C20 plinth. This statue by the American sculptor George Gray Barnard (1863-1938) is another cast of that installed in Lytle Park, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1917 and was given to the City of Manchester in 1919 by Mr and Mrs Charles Phelps Taft, of Cincinnati, the Sulgrave Institution, and the Anglo-American Society. Since a suitable city -centre site could not be found it was set in Platt Fields Park and then was resited in Lincoln Square in 1986.

Listing NGR: SJ8369598134

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