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Monument to Sir Edward Kerrison
County Suffolk   District Council Mid Suffolk District Council 
Civil Parish or equivalent Eye  Town/Village* Eye 
Road Broad Street 
Precise Location Square besides Town hall 
OS Grid Ref TM145740  Postcode IP23 
Previous location(s)  
Setting On small town square  Access Public 
Artist/Maker Role Qualifier
J.K.Colling  Architect(s)   
Cornish and Gaymer  Builder(s)   

Commissioned by

 Public subscription 

Design & Constrn period

 1888 

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

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
Inscription panels (four faces)  Ketton stone  H. 1.50 metres W. 1 metres 
Base  Granite  H & W 1.50 metres 
Gables  Ketton stone  H&W. 1.50 metres 
Spire  Granite  H. 4.50 metres 
Columns  Marble  H. 1.50 metres 

Work is
Extant Not Sited Lost

Owner/Custodian

 Eye Town Council 

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

Overall condition
Good Fair Poor

Risk
No Known Risk At Risk Immediate
Signatures/Marks  
Inscriptions Inscriptions: FRONT: OCULUS IN COELUM/ MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR THE BOROUGH OF EYE/1852 – 1866/ FOR EAST SUFFOLK/1866-68/PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 1865. D.L. AND J.P./FOR SUFFOLK RIEN SANS DIEU/ IN MEMORY/ OF / SIR EDWARD CLARENCE KERRISON/ BARONET/ OF/ OAKLEY PARK AND BROME HALL/ OF THIS COUNTY/BORN 1821 DIED 1886 A GENEROUS LANDLORD/ A FRIEND TO THE POOR/ A ZEALOUS AND POWERFUL/PROMOTER OF GOOD WORKS/ EDUCATIONAL AND BENEVOLENT/IN THIS DISTRICT/AND THROUGHOUT/THE EASTERN COUNTIES THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED/BY/MANY FRIENDS/BOTH RICH AND POOR/WITH GRATEFUL RECOLLECTIONS/OF HIS WIDE SYMPATHIES/AND MUNIFICENT DEES./A.D. MDCCLXXXVIII 

Description (physical)

 The motto OCULUS IN COELUM( heaven's eye) is illustrated by the eye of god in the sun. It alludes both to the family motto RIEN SANS DIEU (nothing without God) and to the town of Eye. This must also have inspired the castle in another coat of arms as an allusion to Eye castle and to the family's ownership of the town from 1824. Above a is a bird nesting in a fig tree The Kerrison coat of arms on one side shows three galtraps of the field and a sword erect - and two medals won by has father (Sir Edward Kerrison 1776-1853) serving under the Duke of Wellington at Orthes in the Peninsula war and Waterloo hangs from a fox's head with a dragon twisting on itself above. It hangs from a fox's head an allusion to his wife's heraldry and on the Kerrison coat of arms is combined with those of his wife - Fox Strangeways, the Earls of Ilchester. 

Description (iconographical)

 Sir Edward Kerrison was responsible for building Hoxne village hall in 1879, while in 1874 his wife, Lady Caroline Kerrison, had been the patron for the redevelopment of Eye Grammar School and the adjoining Guildhall. 

Photographs

 Date taken:  4/9/2007
Date logged: 

Photographed by:
Sarah Cocke

On Site Inspection

 Date:  4/9/2007

Inspected by:
Richard Cocke

Sources and References

 Brown Cynthia Haward Birkin Kindred Robert ed Haward Birkin Dictionary of architects of Suffolk buildings 1800-1914 a working document compiled from a variety of sources Ipswich 1991 ed 79 

Database

 Date entered:  17/9/2007

Data inputter:
Richard Cocke