COMMEMORATIVE URNS AT NORTH END OF RUNNYMEDE MEADOWS

COMMEMORATIVE URNS AT NORTH END OF RUNNYMEDE MEADOWS, WINDSOR ROAD, EGHAM

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1028924
Date first listed:: 17-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: COMMEMORATIVE URNS AT NORTH END OF RUNNYMEDE MEADOWS
Statutory Address:: COMMEMORATIVE URNS AT NORTH END OF RUNNYMEDE MEADOWS, WINDSOR ROAD, EGHAM

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1028924
Date first listed:: 17-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: COMMEMORATIVE URNS AT NORTH END OF RUNNYMEDE MEADOWS
Statutory Address 1:: COMMEMORATIVE URNS AT NORTH END OF RUNNYMEDE MEADOWS, WINDSOR ROAD, EGHAM

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: COMMEMORATIVE URNS AT NORTH END OF RUNNYMEDE MEADOWS, WINDSOR ROAD, EGHAM

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Surrey
District:: Runnymede (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 99662 73141

Summary

Pair of commemorative urns by Sir Edwin Lutyens, 1929.

History

The urns, which are by the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, are situated at the north end of Runnymede Meadows. They commemorate the donation of the meadows to the nation by Lady Fairhaven (and sons) in memory of her husband Sir Urban Broughton MP, who was known for his charitable works.

Magna Carta, which means ‘Great Charter’, was sealed at Runnymede on 15th June 1215. This was an agreement between King John and his barons and clergy which, for the first time, made the monarch subject to the laws of the land. It also gave free men the right to justice and a fair trial. Over the subsequent 800 years it has influenced many constitutional documents including the United States’ Bill of Rights.

Runnymede today is a memorial landscape to the on-going struggle for democracy and liberty.

Details

Pair of commemorative urns by Sir Edwin Lutyens 1929. Stone block on plinth with recessed entablature as on Lodges, crowned with a formalised stone urn on a laurel wreath inscribed 'Donation of Meadows to the Nation in memory of Urban Hanlon Broughton 1857-1929 by his widow and two sons. Dedicated 18 December 1929'.

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/06/2015

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Legacy System number:: 289769
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.