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Gloucester
Gloucestershire
South West England

Gloucester Park

Robert Raikes

Gloucester 1736 - Gloucester 1811
English philanthropist and Anglican layman, founder of the Sunday School Movement
(Wikipedia)

Thomas Brock
A.B. Burton (Thames Ditton)
1930

Description

Bronze statue of Raikes in eighteenth-century clothes, pointing at a Bible in his left hand.

Inscription(s)

ROBERT RAIKES.
Founder of the Sunday School
Movement.
Born in Gloucester, 1735; Died 1811.
Third Jubiliee of the Movement.
Celebrated in 1930.
THIS STATUE.
erected by contributions of teachers
and scholars in Sunday Schools of the
land, collected under the auspices of
"the united board of Sunday School
Organisations" and of "the national
Sunday School Union" is presented to
his Native City.
unveiled, Thursday 2^nd October 1930.

Signed: tho^s brock Sculp. / london 1880
a.b. burton / founder

Annotation

It is unveiled op 2 October 1930 by 40 children, drawn from each Sunday School in the district, and after that presented to the Mayor of Gloucester by two of the children, Sylvia Lawrence and John Ruslingand dedicated by the Bishop of Gloucester, Dr. A.C. Headlam. Tthere were 6,000 children from Sunday Schools of Gloucestershire present, and 4,000 adults.

The statue is a re-cast of the 1880 statue in London, made in 1929 for the 150th anniversary of the first Sunday school.

Sculptor

Sir Thomas Brock KCB RA (1847-1922), English sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Western Daily Press - Friday 3 October 1930 (British Newspaper Archive).

Locatie (N 51°51'37" - W 2°14'36") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: gbsw017; Photograph: 23 July 2012
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