Willshire Monument On Traffic Island is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. A C19 Monument. 1 related planning application.
Willshire Monument On Traffic Island
- WRENN ID
- tattered-outpost-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1988
- Type
- Monument
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BARNSTAPLE
SS5532 THE SQUARE 684-1/4/242 Willshire Monument on traffic island 31/08/88
GV II
Memorial bust. Late C19. By WL Baron of Barnstaple. Bronze bust standing on a column with shaft of polished red granite; pedestal and capital of polished grey granite. On the shaft is carved CHARLES SWEET WILLSHIRE. 1837-89. On the pedestal is carved ERECTED BY FRIENDS AND FELLOW TOWNSMEN IN RECOGNITION OF HIS EMINENT AND UNSELFISH SERVICES AS A LIBERAL POLITICIAN AND MUNICIPAL REPRESENTATIVE. Willshire was described in 1897 as 'for many years one of the most influential political leaders in the Western Counties'. WL Baron was one of the principal decorators at Brannam's pottery in Litchdon Street (qv); in about 1895 he started his own pottery at Rolle Quay. (Gardiner WF: Barnstaple: 1837-97: 1897-: 240; Thomas EU: Victorian Art Pottery: 1974-: 105).
Listing NGR: SS5588732996
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