John Cassidy - Scupltor
Here are the illustrated features we have compiled about John Cassidy, his works, and related subjects.



Self portrait by Cassidy (private collection, USA)

Please feel free to contribute: our thanks are due to everyone who has helped so far.



Model for John and Sebastian Cabot (Exhibited at the New Gallery, London, 1897)




Write to us at:

charlie@johncassidy.org.uk

Website created and compiled by Charlie Hulme and Lis Nicolson, with the invaluable assistance of the John Cassidy Committee, Slane Historical Society.

Features on this site

Biography | War Memorials | Outdoor public works | Other works


Biography and background


The Cassidys of Slane: a genealogical exploration

John Cassidy's early life in Ireland

The Manchester School of Art

Cassidy in Manchester Faces and Places, 1898

Two published biographies

The Avenue, Sale

James Gresham, engineer and art collector

John Cassidy's Last Days, July 1939


War Memorials


Colwyn Bay War Memorial, North Wales

Eccles War Memorial, Greater Manchester

Heaton Moor War memorial, Stockport

Lower Peover War Memorial, Cheshire

Skipton War Memorial, North Yorkshire

Conservative Club, Rishton, Lancashire

St Peter's War Memorial lych gate Swinton (Greater Manchester)


Other outdoor and public works


John Pennington Thomasson and Mere Hall, Bolton

The John Kay Memorial, Bury

Adrift in Manchester - 'lost', and now found

Down in Albert Square: Cassidy in the heart of Manchester.

In Search of Ben Brierley

Bolton, a tale of two statues

Richard Peacock Memorial, Gorton

King Edward VII, Manchester

Rochdale and the Lancashire Dialect Writers Memorial

John and Enriqueta Rylands (John Rylands Library)

Theology directing the labours of Science and Art (John Rylands Library)

The Hygeia statue, Aberdeen

Queen Victoria statue, Belfast

The Edward Colston statue, Bristol



Other works and their stories


Ernest Marriott: Librarian, author and artist

Henry Clarence Whaite: a letter from John Cassidy

A mystery female figure


Page updated by Charlie Hulme January 2010