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Hull
(Kingston-upon-Hull) East Riding of Yorkshire Yorkshire & Humberside Victoria Square
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Commerce and Prosperity |
John Underwood
1871 |
The Dock Offices building - headquarters of the Hull Dock Company, which operated all docks in Hull - was built in 1868-71 after designs of the architect Christopher George Wray. Now it houses the Hull Maritime Museum, The tympanum "is magnificently carved with sculptures representing 'Commerce' and 'Prosperity,' with the figure of a river god representing the river Humber." The pediment is topped with a crest of seated male and female figures flanking a grouping of three baroque cartouches and two cornucopiae, containing the Royal arms and those of Hull and Trinity House.
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