Monument · St Helier
Pierre Le Sueur Monument
A granite obelisk in Broad Street, some 40 feet high on a 20-foot base, with bronze lions' heads and crouching leopards at the angles, designed by Poulton and Woodman of Reading.
The story
A granite obelisk in Broad Street, some 40 feet high on a 20-foot base, with bronze lions' heads and crouching leopards at the angles, designed by Poulton and Woodman of Reading. It commemorates Pierre Le Sueur, five times Constable of St Helier, who pushed through sanitary measures and legal reforms, worked on the completion of the harbour and brought clean water to the town, and who died on 16 January 1853. It was paid for by public subscription — a £300 budget completed by an extra £100 donation — and was begun in 1855 and largely finished by May 1856. Water did not run through the lions' heads until November 1870.
