Statue of Henry Schneider is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1976. Statue.
Statue of Henry Schneider
- WRENN ID
- pale-alcove-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1976
- Type
- Statue
- Address
- Statue of Henry Schneider, Duke Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 199 690
- Coordinates
- 54.1108, -3.22631
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Statue of Henry Schneider, located on Duke Street in Barrow-in-Furness, was erected in 1891 and sculpted by Percy Wood. It is made of bronze and stands on a granite pedestal with a two-step stylobate. The cylindrical pedestal is inscribed with the words: 'IN HONOR/ OF HENRY WILLIAM SCHNEIDER/ MAYOR OF THIS BOROUGH/ 1875 TO 1878/ ERECTED/ BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION/ 1891', and features a Vitruvian scroll beneath the cornice. The statue depicts a robed figure of Henry Schneider, who is oriented towards Duke Street. Schneider, along with Hannay and Co, built the first blast furnaces in Barrow between 1857 and 1859, and later merged with James Ramsden's company to create the Barrow Haematite Iron and Steel Company in 1866. By 1876, this company had become the largest iron and steel plant in the world, utilizing the Bessemer process. The statue serves as the centerpiece of Schneider Square.
Local climate
Statue of Henry Schneider sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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