York Historic Environment Record

A horse through now filled with flowers, with an inscription that reads “In memory of Henry Richardson of Cherry Hill, York 1813-1895”. Richardson was bequeathed a tannery on Cherry Hill by his father and in the latter half of the 19th Century started manufacturing chemical fertilisers. Richardson’s factory was situated just south of Skeldergate Bridge along the Ouse frontage. It was closed in 1973 and demolished soon after. Richardson was also a co-founder of the York branch of the RSPCA in 1864. In respect of this, on the reverse, the inscription reads “A righteous man regarded the life of his beast”. It is a memorial to a respected pillar of the local community and a reminder of the lost industrial past in the area.

York Civic Trust