Saint George and the Dragon
Coade
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
circa 1780 - circa 1820
Materials
Coade Stone
Place of origin
Lambeth
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 516674
Summary
Coade Stone, Saint George and the Dragon, Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory Co., c. 1780-1820. A moulded sculpture of St George in armour, mounted on his rearing charger, plunging a spear (of copper or copper alloy) into a dragon. Manufactured by Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory Co., Lambeth, London. Mounted over the south porch of Anglesey Abbey.
Full description
The Coade Manufactory predominantly specialised in neo-classical artificial stone statuary and architectural ornament but expanded into the increasingly influential Gothic style following a commission for Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill House in 1772. Some years later, in c. 1785 to 1799, Coade was engaged by Henry Emlyn to produce artificial stone enrichments for St George's Chapel, Windsor, which included a replica rood screen and fan vaulting in the late perpendicular style, a font (destroyed), and three statues for the West front depicting St George slaying the dragon, Edward the Confessor and the Virgin Mary. Alice Rylance-Watson 2019
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (The National Trust)
Makers and roles
Coade, manufacturer
References
Kelly 1990: Alison Kelly, Mrs Coade's stone, Upton-upon-Severn 1990, pp. 107-26, 337. Roper 1964: Lanning Roper, The Gardens of Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire. The Home of Lord Fairhaven, London 1964, p. 50. Christie, Manson & Woods 1971: The National Trust, Anglesey Abbey, Cambridge. Inventory: Furniture, Textiles, Porcelain, Bronzes, Sculpture and Garden Ornaments’, 1971, p. 175.