Boswell Statue, Lichfield
Description: Boswell Statue
Grade: II
Date Listed: 5 February 1952
English Heritage Building ID: 382676
OS Grid Reference: SK1176209587
OS Grid Coordinates: 411762, 309587
Latitude/Longitude: 52.6839, -1.8274
Location: Market Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire WS13 6AE
Locality: Lichfield
Local Authority: Lichfield District Council
County: Staffordshire
Country: England
Postcode: WS13 6AE
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Listing Text
LICHFIELD
SK1109NE MARKET SQUARE
1094-1/5/120 (North West side)
05/02/52 Boswell Statue
GV II
Statue of James Boswell. 1908. By Percy Fitzgerald. Ashlar
with bronze figure and panels; wrought-iron railings. Plinth
has 3 bronze relief panels of scenes of Johnson and Boswell.
Front inscription: BOSWELL/ 1740:1795, below an armorial
crest. Portrait medallions of Boswell's contemporaries to
frieze. Inscription to rear. Statue in contemporary dress with
sword and hat. Plain iron railings, some serpentine.
Boswell was the friend and biographer of Dr Samuel Johnson;
the statue was made and presented by Percy Fitzgerald, writer
and sculptor, the biographer of Boswell.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London:
1974-: P.194; Thorne JO: Chambers Biographical Dictionary:
Edinburgh: 1974-: P.473, 157).
Listing NGR: SK1176209587
Source: English Heritage
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