Dr Cooke Statue, College Square, Belfast

A memorial statue to Dr Henry Cooke, erected 1876 to designs by Samuel Ferris Lynn, and located at the junction of College Square E and Wellington Place, in Belfast City Centre. The statue is cast in bronze (heavily patinated) and consists of a standing figure in academic robes with a pile of books at his heel and clutching papers. The base of the statue bears two signatures: at south ‘S.F. Lynn, A.R.H.A. Sculpt. / London 1875’ and at north, ‘H PRINCE, FOUNDER / SOUTHWARK’. The statue is mounted on a slightly tapered polished red granite corniced plinth, with inscription on each side; to east: ‘HENRY COOKE / D.D.L.L.B. / BORN 1780 / DIED 1868’; to west: ‘ORDAINED IN / DUNEANE 1808 / INSTALLED IN / DONEGORE 1811 / KILLYLEAGH 1818 / BELFAST 1829’. The plinth is mounted on a polished grey granite pedestal mounted on a stepped platform of unpolished stone. Setting: Built-up urban setting on a pedestrian island at the centre of a busy city centre traffic junction, fronting Belfast Academical Institution (HB26/50/023) and Belfast College of Technology (HB26/50/222). Tarmcadam hardstandings and metal railings to pedestrian island. Statue: Bronze Plinth: Granite