Survey Data
Reg No
20512910
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Social
Original Use
Monument
In Use As
Monument
Date
1860 - 1865
Coordinates
167657, 72026
Date Recorded
23/04/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Free-standing bronze statue of a male figure, erected 1864, and set on stepped plinth with carved frieze to cornice and bronze lettering.
Appraisal
This bronze figure of Father Theobold Mathew, the Capuchin friar and Apostle of Temperance, by sculptor John Henry Foley, makes a notable and positive addition to the streetscape. This statue is of apparent artistic design and was well cast by at the Union St. South Works. Set on a high plinth, which is enhanced by carved detail, it occupies a prominent location in the city, at the northern end of Saint Patrick's Street, close to the busy thoroughfares of Saint Patrick's Bridge, Lavitt's Quay and Merchant's Quay.