Jump to content

File:Kidderminster Town Hall - Sir Rowland Hill statue with guitar (28881834993).jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file (4,608 × 3,456 pixels, file size: 5.96 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description

The civic heart of Kidderminster Town Centre.


Penny Black Square


Sir Rowland Hill statue outside Kidderminster Town Hall.

With a guitar from the Kidderminster Arts Festival that took place during August 2016.


Grade II listed.

Statue of Sir Rowland Hill, Kidderminster

   VICAR STREET
   1.
   5250 Statue of Sir Rowland Hill
   SO 8376 1/88
   II GV


   2.
   Circa 1881, by Sir Thomas Brock. Circular granite plinth with standing stone
   statue. Inscribed 'Born at Kidderminster 1795 buried in Westminster Abbey
   1879' and 'To his creative mind and patient energy the world is indebted for
   the Penny Postage introduced 1840'.


   Listing NGR: SO8318676564

The Town Hall is Grade II listed.

The Town Hall, Kidderminster

   VICAR STREET
   1.
   5250 (west side)
   The Town Hall
   SO 8376 1/90
   II GV


   2.
   1876-7, by J T Meredith. District Council premises; formerly council offices
   and chamber, and magistrates court. Two storeys in red brick with stone dressings.
   Brick parapet with inset iron grilles and stone cornice on brackets. Pilasters
   in brick with stone caps divide the 3 bays. Flat carved cornices on brackets
   to windows, carved aprons, cills on brackets. Ground floor in channelled rustication
   has 3 round-headed windows and a round-headed entry below a window with stone
   balcony. Clock on a wrought bracket. Barometer in the wall. Hansard roof
   with round-headed attic windows.


   Listing NGR: SO8314776555


This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.

Source: English Heritage

Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.
Date
Source Kidderminster Town Hall - Penny Black Square, Kidderminster - Sir Rowland Hill statue - with guitar from the Kidderminster Arts Festival
Author Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom
Camera location52° 23′ 13.2″ N, 2° 14′ 56.32″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Licensing

w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
This image was originally posted to Flickr by ell brown at https://flickr.com/photos/39415781@N06/28881834993. It was reviewed on 9 September 2016 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0.

9 September 2016

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

4 September 2016

52°23'13.204"N, 2°14'56.324"W

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current22:12, 9 September 2016Thumbnail for version as of 22:12, 9 September 20164,608 × 3,456 (5.96 MB)EllrbrownTransferred from Flickr via Flickr2Commons

Metadata