Bronze Statue of the tragic young poet by Lawrence Holofcener. This is located in Millenium Square, Bristol Thomas Chatterton was born in Bristol. His father died four months before he was born so his mother established a girls' school and took in sewing.

In his teens he claimed to have discovered ancient verses by a medieval monk called Rowley in St Mary Redcliffe church, Bristol, where his uncle was responsible for the church buildings and graveyard. Scholars considered them to be genuine but in fact the young Chatterton had written them himself.