MONUMENT TO THE NEW RIVER ON SMALLER ISLAND BELOW THE CHURCH

MONUMENT TO THE NEW RIVER ON SMALLER ISLAND BELOW THE CHURCH, ST JOHNS LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1068705
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT TO THE NEW RIVER ON SMALLER ISLAND BELOW THE CHURCH
Statutory Address:: MONUMENT TO THE NEW RIVER ON SMALLER ISLAND BELOW THE CHURCH, ST JOHNS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1068705
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT TO THE NEW RIVER ON SMALLER ISLAND BELOW THE CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: MONUMENT TO THE NEW RIVER ON SMALLER ISLAND BELOW THE CHURCH, ST JOHNS LANE

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

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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:: MONUMENT TO THE NEW RIVER ON SMALLER ISLAND BELOW THE CHURCH, ST JOHNS LANE

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County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Great Amwell
National Grid Reference:: TL 37148 12581

Details

GREAT AMWELL ST JOHNS LANE TL 3712 (north side) Great Amwell village 12/9 Monument to The New River on smaller island 4.12.51 below the church

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Monument to the New River. 1818 in the form of a square stone pedestal on a chamfered base with ball finial. Inscribed on the upstream face: 'Amwell! perpetual be thy stream,/Nor e'er thy spring be less,/Which thousands drink, who never dream,/Whence flows the boon they bless./Too often thus ungrateful man/Blind and unconscious lives,/Enjoys kind Heav'ns indulgent plan,/Nor thinks of him who gives./Archdeacon NARES 1818.' The lines are said to have been composed by Archdeacon Nares. A neo-classical monument. Part of a group in a landscaped setting of great beauty. (Harvey (1896) 121: Pevsner (1977) 149).

Listing NGR: TL3714812581

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Legacy System number:: 355871
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Sources

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Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 149
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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 21 Hertfordshire,

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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.