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Title*

Statue of Ceres
County Norfolk   District Council King's Lynn 
Civil Parish or equivalent King's Lynn  Town/Village* King's Lynn 
Road Tuesday Market Place 
Precise Location West side of the Market Place 
OS Grid Ref TF616202  Postcode PE30 
Previous location(s)  
Setting Theatre facing onto the square  Access Public 
Artist/Maker Role Qualifier
Unknown  Sculptor(s)   
Cruso & Maberley  Architect(s)   

Commissioned by

 Mayor Walter Moyes 

Design & Constrn period

 1853-4 

Date of installing

 1854 

Exact date of unveiling

 9-Jan-1855 

Category
Abstract Animal Architectural
Commercial Commemorative Composite
Free Functional Funerary
Heraldic Military Natural
Non-Commemorative Performance Portable
Religious Roadside, Wayside Sculptural
Temporary, Mobile Other  

Object Type
Building Clock Tower Architectural
Coat of Arms Cross Fountain
Landscape Marker Medallion
Mural Panel Readymade
Relief Shaft Sculpture
Statue Street Furniture War Memorial
Other Object Sub Type:

Subject Type
Allegorical Mythological Pictorial
Figurative Non-figurative Portrait
Still-life Symbolic Other

Subject Sub Type
Bust Equestrian Full-length
Group Head Reclining
Seated Standing Torso
Part Material Dimension
Statue  Limestone (probably Ketton Stone)  H 2.5 m (approx) 

Work is
Extant Not Sited Lost

Owner/Custodian

 King's Lynn Corn Exchange 

Listing status
Grade I Grade II* Grade II Don't Know Not Listed

Surface Condition
Corrosion, Deterioration Accretions
Bird Guano Abrasions, cracks, splits
Biological growth Spalling, crumbling
Metallic staining Previous treatments
Other  
Detail: The fairly substantial staining to the head and front of the body caused by perching pigeons was removed by Christopher Hobson of Peniston, King's Lynn in the summer of 2007, as part of the campaign to upgrade the lighting of the Corn Exchange

Structural Condition
Armature exposed Broken or missing parts
Replaced parts Loose elements
Cracks, splits, breaks, holes Spalling, crumbling
Water collection Other
Detail:

Vandalism
Graffiti Structural damage Surface Damage
Detail:

Overall condition
Good Fair Poor

Risk
No Known Risk At Risk Immediate
Signatures/Marks  
Inscriptions CORN EXCHANGE / ERECTED.AD.1854 

Description (physical)

 The facade of the former Corn Exchange (converted in 1996 into a theatre) is freely based on Roman triumphal arches, with triple openings divided by ionic columns and the central attic set above the pediment. The doorways, unlike the openings in triumphal arches, are similar in size with sheaves of corn at the sides and a central cartouche with the arms of King's Lynn, under a pelican in its piety. Ceres on the attic was designed in similar vein as a variation on classical figure-types and drapery. Her perfect features and straight nose conform to the classical canon, as does the contrapposto of her pose, realised through contrasting her straight left leg straight with the bent right with her head set to one side. The heavy drapery is also unclassical in falling diagonally across her bent leg,with broad straight folds over her standing one and in being pinned by a broach a the shoulder so that her arms are bare.  

Description (iconographical)

 Ceres is the Goddess of Corn and therefore announces the building's former trading function. Corn exchanges were built, and enlarged across the region, in large numbers during the nineteenth century including: Attleborough, Bury St Edmunds, East Dereham, Great Yarmouth, Ipswich, Norwich, Sudbury and Swaffham 

Photographs

 Date taken:  28/7/2006
Date logged:  1/8/2006

Photographed by:
David Hulks

On Site Inspection

 Date:  28/7/2006

Inspected by:
David Hulks

Sources and References

 BOE 2 p. 231 / www.west-norfolk.gov.uk accessed 22-May-07 / www.imagesofengland.org.uk accessed 23-May-07; information from Christopher Hobson of Peniston, 20/11/2009 

Database

 Date entered:  23/5/2007

Data inputter:
David Hulks & Richard Cocke