Town Hall, Victoria Square, Bolton, Greater Manchester, 1866-1873.
By William Hill of Leeds, assisted by George Woodhouse.
Grade ll* listed.
Extended 1938 by Bradshaw Gass & Hope.
High relief allegorical sculpture in the pediment by William Calder Marshall (1813-1894).
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Town Hall, Victoria Square, Bolton, Greater Manchester, 1866-1873.
By William Hill of Leeds, assisted by George Woodhouse.
Grade ll* listed.
Extended 1938 by Bradshaw Gass & Hope.
High relief allegorical sculpture in the pediment by William Calder Marshall (1813-1894).
Tags: bolton greater manchester victorian town hall
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Town Hall, Victoria Square, Bolton, Greater Manchester, 1866-1873.
By William Hill of Leeds, assisted by George Woodhouse.
Grade ll* listed.
Extended 1938 by Bradshaw Gass & Hope.
High relief allegorical sculpture in the pediment by William Calder Marshall (1813-1894).
Tags: bolton greater manchester victorian town hall
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Town Hall, Victoria Square, Bolton, Greater Manchester, 1866-1873.
By William Hill of Leeds, assisted by George Woodhouse.
Grade ll* listed.
Extended 1938 by Bradshaw Gass & Hope.
Tags: bolton greater manchester victorian
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Victoria Square, Bolton, Greater Manchester.
Statue of Samuel Taylor Chadwick (1809-1876), 1873.
By Charles Bell Birch (1832-1893).
Grade ll listed.
A bronze portrait statue surmounting a pedestal of Cornish grey granite. On the pedestal is a bronze relief showing Chadwick's wife, seated, surrounded by children. Her right arm is raised towards the orphanage which her husband established and endowed.
Samuel Taylor Chadwick doctor and philanthropist, was born in Urmston, Lancashire, into a relatively wealthy farming family. He trained as a doctor and after a period practising medicine in Wigan, he moved, in 1837, to Bolton. Chadwick soon developed a reputation as an able doctor with a willingness to help the poor. He was concerned to improve the public health of the town, a subject he pursued when serving as a Conservative councillor from 1858 to 1861. Throughout these years Chadwick gave generously in time and money to a wide range of schemes to improve the lives of the local working classes.
His personal life was marked by tragedy, having married Anne Hall of Bolton in 1831, their two children died in childhood. Ill health forced Chadwick to retire from his medical practice in 1863, moving to Southport; an occasion marked by numerous tributes including a full-length portrait paid for by some 7,000 working-class subscribers.
His interest in Bolton continued and in 1868 he gave £17,000, later increased to £22,000, to establish an orphanage and model dwellings in the town; the rent from the houses being used to provide revenue for the orphanage.
He declined a request to stand as Conservative parliamentary candidate for the borough in 1868. By the time of his death in 1876 Chadwick had seen his orphanage opened. Among his bequests was £5,000 to establish a natural history museum in the town’s main park.
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