Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8398SE BRAZENNOSE STREET
698-1/1/869 (South side)
03/10/74 Abraham Lincoln Statue
(Formerly Listed as:
PLATT FIELDS PARK, Fallowfield
Abraham Lincoln Statue to south of
Platt Hall)

II

Statue. 1919. By George Gray Barnard. Bronze. Over-life-size
statue on high late C20 plinth. This statue by the American
sculptor George Gray Barnard (1863-1938) is another cast of
that installed in Lytle Park, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1917 and
was given to the City of Manchester in 1919 by Mr and Mrs
Charles Phelps Taft, of Cincinnati, the Sulgrave Institution,
and the Anglo-American Society. Since a suitable city -centre
site could not be found it was set in Platt Fields Park and
then was resited in Lincoln Square in 1986.

Listing NGR: SJ8369598134

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26581249

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)