STATUE OF RICHARD COBDEN

STATUE OF RICHARD COBDEN, CAMDEN HIGH STREET

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1272429
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF RICHARD COBDEN
Statutory Address:: STATUE OF RICHARD COBDEN, CAMDEN HIGH STREET

User submitted image — Uploaded by Heather Gordon This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2004-10-30
Reference:: IOE01/13008/19
Rights:: © Mr Adrian Hull. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1272429
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF RICHARD COBDEN
Statutory Address 1:: STATUE OF RICHARD COBDEN, CAMDEN HIGH STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: STATUE OF RICHARD COBDEN, CAMDEN HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Camden (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 29180 83403

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2983SW CAMDEN HIGH STREET 798-1/83/154 Statue of Richard Cobden 14/05/74

GV II

Statue. c1868. By W and T Wills. Sicilian marble. Figure of Cobden (badly weathered) in contemporary dress with right hand raised and holding papers in left hand; standing on an inscribed pedestal with side panels having carved swags. Base inscribed "Cornlaws repealed 1846". HISTORICAL NOTE: Richard Cobden, MP, led the successful campaign for the repeal of the Corn Laws in the 1840s. The statue was erected by public subscription 3 years after his death; inscription records that Napoleon III was the principal contributor, for Cobden had been instrumental in establishing a free trade treaty with France in 1860.

Listing NGR: TQ2918083403

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 476809
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.