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Bronze Plaque to William Fellowes -former N& N Hospital

County Norfolk   District Council Norwich City Council 
Civil Parish or equivalent Norwich  Town/Village* Norwich 
Road St Stephens 
Precise Location On former outpatient building of Norfolk and Norwich Hospital 
OS Grid Ref TG227078  Postcode NR2 
Previous location(s)  
Setting On building  Access Public 
Artist/Maker Role Qualifier
Maidie Buckingham (1901-1988)     

Commissioned by

By public subscription 

Design & Constrn period

ca. 1927 

Date of installing

 

Exact date of unveiling

 

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: memorial to William Fellowes

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
Commemorative panel  Stone  H.5 metres W. 1 metre 
Plaque  Bronze  H. 1.20 metres W. 50 cms 

Work is

Extant Not Sited Lost

Owner/Custodian

Persimmon Homes 

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: Dirt on upper cartouche metallic staining from bronze

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 In roundel N&NH intertwined Under bust of Fellowes: WILLIAM FELLOWES/OF SHOTESHAM/FOUNDED THIS HOSPITAL/ IN 1771 On stone panel: THIS OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT/ WAS RECONSTRUCTED & ENLARGED/ IN 1927/ BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION AS A/MEMORIAL TO THOSE OF/NORFOLK AND NORWICH. WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918 

Description (physical)

The large plaque dominates the first floor of the St Stephens street side of the enlarged narrow side of the 1927 rebuilt outpatient building. Fellowes is shown in a bust length portrait in contemporary costume and wig. The bust rests on a ledge with an inscription identifying him set into a classically inspired field. There are no obvious surviving images of Fellowes for the sculptor to have followed.  

Description (iconographical)

William Fellowes had founded a village hospital in Shotesham –where he was the squire- sometime before 1754. The Norfolk and Norwich Hospital came late in the wave of hospital building in the provinces which began in the 1730s. By 1744 there was pressure for Norwich to have one of these new voluntary hospitals although impetus was lost after 1761 when Thomas Hayter Bishop of Norwich and a leading advocate moved to a bishopric in London. William Fellowes called an open meeting in 1770 when subscriptions were opened. A plaster model for the sculpture was unveiled in the Victorian part of the hospital in 1984. 

Photographs

Date taken:  13/3/2006
Date logged: 

Photographed by:
Sarah Cocke

On Site Inspection

Date:  13/5/2006

Inspected by:
Richard Cocke

Sources and References

Meeres, Frank, A History of Norwich, Chichester, 1998, 110; Batty Shaw, Anthony, Norfolk and Norwich Medicine: a retrospect, The Norwich medico-Chirurgical Society, 1992, 55, 57 and pl. 30 

Database

Date entered:  22/5/2007

Data inputter:
Richard Cocke