The Fish Fylingdales, England
Listed Building Data
The Fish has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1391560
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 10 April 2006
- Name
- THE FISH
- Location
- THE FISH, ROBIN HOODS BAY
- Parish
- Fylingdales
- District
- Scarborough
- County
- North Yorkshire
- Grid Reference
- NZ 95312 04859
- Easting
- 495311.8460
- Northing
- 504858.9760
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
WHITBY
665/0/10025 ROBIN HOODS BAY 11-APR-06 The Fish
II Collecting box for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution erected by 1887. Probably made at Batts Iron Foundry (Huttons Works) at Whitby and presented by a local ship owner Captain Isaac Mills and his wife Alice Russell.
Cast iron painted sculpture of a cod fish standing on its tail with its mouth forming a slot for money. It is around 1.2m tall and weighs a just over 110kg. Sited on the south side of the top of the slipway that was formally used by the village¿s lifeboat and fishing fleet.
Summary of Importance The Fish, possibly the oldest collecting box still in service for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, is a good example of Victorian foundry craftsmanship. It meets the criteria for listing as an example of Victorian public statuary and can be seen as a memorial to fishermen lost at sea and the bravery of RNLI volunteers. It provides a clear link to the life of Robin Hood's Bay before the rise of tourism that now dominates the economy of the village.
