Miller & Carter want new bull statue at Old Market, Hereford

A planning application to install a bull statue in Hereford's Old Market has been submitted by Miller & Carter owner Mitchells & Butlers. 

The application says the business wants to install an aluminium bull sculpture on a Brazilian slate-clad concrete base within the boundary of the external seating area to the front of the restaurant. 

The proposed bull statue (Image: NTS/Herefordshire Council (from application))

The installation will involve the lifting and relaying of existing paving slabs to facilitate the trenching of an electrical cable to allow for the installation of lighting to the base of the sculpture. 

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The statue, if approved, will be a very different style to the bull in High Town, and does not appear to be a nod to Herefordshire's long and famous cattle history, with Spanish influence suggested in the design and the bull shown in what appears to be a fighting stance.

A Spanish fighting bull in Seville (Image: Fiskeharrison/Wikimedia Commons)

Hereford's current bull statue in High Town represents the famous Hereford cattle, which are known across the world for their beef.

The Hereford bull statue in High Town (Image: Adele Loney)

The Old Market, which is built on the site of Hereford's former cattle market, is also home to a statue of Allan Leonard Lewis VC, who was born in Whitney-on-Wye in 1895.

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It was his soldierly disposition and character that earned him promotion to lance corporal, and he took part in the final Allied push to break the German Hindenburg Line in late 1918.

The Allan Lewis statue at Hereford's Old Market (Image: Jon Simpson)

He was to show exceptional bravery on two separate occasions, both witnessed by others, and showing a quiet confidence, spirit, determination and bravery under fire.

On September 21, a matter of weeks before the Armistice was signed, he was killed in action, and his grieving parents were to receive his posthumously awarded Victoria Cross from King George V at Buckingham Palace the following April.