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Latitude: 54.5743 / 54°34'27"N
Longitude: -1.234 / 1°14'2"W
OS Eastings: 449614
OS Northings: 520171
OS Grid: NZ496201
Mapcode National: GBR MHTK.M0
Mapcode Global: WHD70.09N2
Plus Code: 9C6WHQF8+P9
Entry Name: Monument to John Vaughan
Listing Date: 28 July 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1329504
English Heritage Legacy ID: 59800
ID on this website: 101329504
Location: Centre Square, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, TS1
County: Middlesbrough
Electoral Ward/Division: Central
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Middlesbrough
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Middlesbrough St John Evangelist
Church of England Diocese: York
Tagged with: Monument
NZ 4920 SE
9/89
MIDDLESBROUGH
VICTORIA SQUARE,
south end.
Monument to John Vaughan.
II
G.V.
Monument, dated 1884, to John Vaughan, by G.A. Lawson. Bronze figure and
tablets; roughly dressed ironstone pedestal and plinth. Standing male
figure with coat draped over left arm, on shallow pedestal and deep
slightly-tapered plinth. Relief-sculptured tablet in each face of pedestal
depicting: ironstone mine, ironworks, iron-rolling mill, and railway.
Renewed tablet on north face of plinth inscribed: "JOHN VAUGHAN 1799-1868.
MAYOR OF MIDDLESBROUGH 1855. DISCOVERED IRONSTONE IN THE CLEVELAND HILLS.
FOUNDER OF THE IRON TRADE IN CLEVELAND. PARTNER IN BOLCKOW, VAUGHAN & CO.
LTD., WHO BUILT ONE OF THE FIRST IRON WORKS IN MIDDLESBROUGH IN 1840".
Originally sited in Exchange Place; moved here 1914. Included for historic
interest.
Listing NGR: NZ4961420171
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