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Four statues on the Clocktower

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Samuel Barfield
1868

Leicester / Four statues on the Clocktower

Description

Four statues in Portland stone of each of the benefactors stands at each corner, on the sides the coats of arms of those four men.

Leicester - Four statues on the Clocktower
1. Simon de Montfort
2. William Wyggeston
3. Sir Thomas White
4. Alderman Gabriel Newton

The four benefactors are:

SIMON DE MONTFORT / EARL OF LEICESTER.
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (ca. 1208-1265) (Wikipedia).
WILLIAM WIGSTON / 1500.
William Wyggeston (1456-1536), wool merchant. Mayor of Leicester (1499 and 1510), and MP for Leicester in 1504 (Wikipedia).
SIR THOMAS WHITE / 1546.
Sir Thomas White (1492-1567), cloth merchant, Lord Mayor of London and the founder of St John's College, Oxford in 1555. The Sir Thomas White Loan Charity was founded in 1542 and is still extant. It gives interest-free loans to aspiring businesspeople in Leicestershire and Rutland (Wikipedia).
ALD^N GABRIEL NEWTON / 1780.
Alderman Gabriel Newton (1683-1762), mayor of Leicester in 1732 (Wikipedia).

Inscription(s)

ERECTED
by
public subscription,
aided
by the corporation of
this borough,
a.d. 1868,
in memory of
four benefactors of
Leicester

t.w. hodges mayo[r]
s. stone, town cle[rk]
j. allen ...
j. burto[n, secretar]y
of the subscribers' committee
goddard [s] barfield

Sculptor

Samuel Barfield (1830-1887), Leicester monumental stonemason, who produced statuary, monumental masonry and all types of ecclesiastical furniture and fittings.

Sources & Information

Leicester City Council, Statues and Sculpture.
Terry Cavanagh and Alison Yarrington, Public sculpture of Leicestershire and Rutland (Liverpool 2000) .

Locatie (N 52°38'10" - W 1°7'59") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: gbem008; Photograph: 25 October 2009
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