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© Mr John H. Sparkes
IoE Number:
373861
Location:
BLAKE STATUE, CORNHILL
BRIDGWATER, SEDGEMOOR, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Mr John H. Sparkes
Date Photographed:
27 March 2007
Date listed:
24 March 1950
Date of last amendment:
24 March 1950
Grade
II*
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BRIDGWATER
ST2937SE CORNHILL
736-1/10/45 Blake Statue
24/03/50
GV II*
Statue of Admiral Blake. 1898. By D W Pomeroy. Bronze,
limestone and granite. A vigorous more-than-lifesize figure in
C17 costume, repositioned from the front of the Corn Exchange
(qv) to face down Cornhill, has its right arm outstretched and
points toward Christ Church Unitarian Chapel in Dampiet Street
(qv); it stands on a square base above a corniced granite
plinth with recessed square panels to each side; lively
finely-detailed bronze low-relief scenes to the rear and sides
depict the Admiral's victories at sea and the return of his
body to Plymouth Sound in 1657; an inscription to the front
reads "Robert Blake born in this town 1598 died at sea 1657".
The base is of granite steps raised on a C20 circular brick
dais.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: South and West Somerset:
London: 1958-: 98).