WELLINGTON MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 170 METRES EAST OF BISPHAM HALL

WELLINGTON MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 170 METRES EAST OF BISPHAM HALL, CRANK ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1068435
Date first listed:: 23-Aug-1966
List Entry Name:: WELLINGTON MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 170 METRES EAST OF BISPHAM HALL
Statutory Address:: WELLINGTON MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 170 METRES EAST OF BISPHAM HALL, CRANK ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1068435
Date first listed:: 23-Aug-1966
List Entry Name:: WELLINGTON MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 170 METRES EAST OF BISPHAM HALL
Statutory Address 1:: WELLINGTON MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 170 METRES EAST OF BISPHAM HALL, CRANK ROAD

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:: WELLINGTON MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 170 METRES EAST OF BISPHAM HALL, CRANK ROAD

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

District:: Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 52456 02457

Details

BILLINGE-WITH-WINSTANLEY CRANK ROAD SD 50 SW (west side) 8/33 Wellington Monument approx. 107m. east of 23.8.66 Bispham Hall G.V. II Monument to Duke of Wellington and the victors of Waterloo. 1815. Stone. Square plinth and obelisk supporting ball finial. Inscriptions in English and Latin to cornice and base of plinth and to oval panels to sides, including lists of victorious generals. That to front reads: "TO THE/MOST NOBLE AND ILLUSTRIOUS/ARTHUR/DUKE OF WELLINGTON/AND THE BRAVE HEROES OF BRITAIN AND THE CONTINENT/WHO UNDER HIS AUSPICIOUS GENIUS AND COMMAND/SO GLORIOUSLY ACCOMPLISHED THE DOWNFALL OF/TYRANNY AND THE RESTORATION OF LIBERTY TO EUROPE/ON THE PLAIN OF WATERLOO/JUNE 18th AD 1815"

Listing NGR: SD5245602457

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Legacy System number:: 213590
Legacy System:: LBS

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