MONUMENT ABOUT 2 METRES NORTH OF THE MONUMENT INN

MONUMENT ABOUT 2 METRES NORTH OF THE MONUMENT INN, A4110

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1081827
Date first listed:: 11-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT ABOUT 2 METRES NORTH OF THE MONUMENT INN
Statutory Address:: MONUMENT ABOUT 2 METRES NORTH OF THE MONUMENT INN, A4110

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1081827
Date first listed:: 11-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT ABOUT 2 METRES NORTH OF THE MONUMENT INN
Statutory Address 1:: MONUMENT ABOUT 2 METRES NORTH OF THE MONUMENT INN, A4110

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MONUMENT ABOUT 2 METRES NORTH OF THE MONUMENT INN, A4110

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District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Kingsland
National Grid Reference:: SO 43635 61981

Details

SO 46 SW KINGSLAND CP A 4110 (east side)

5/26 Monument about 2 metres north of the Monument Inn

- II

Monument. Built 1799. Painted ashlar. Pedestal on moulded plinth with moulded cornice and shallow hipped top. Inscribed: "This pedestal is erected to perpetuate the Memory/ of an obstinate, bloody, and decisive battle fought near/ this Spot in the Civil Wars between the ambitious Houses/ of York and Lancaster, on the 2nd Day of February 1461/ between the Forces of Edward Mortimer Earl of/ March, (afterwards Edward the Fourth) on the Side of/ York and those of Henry the Sixth, on the Side of/ Lancaster./ The King's Troops were commanded by Jasper Earl/ of Pembroke, Edward commanded his own in Person and/ was victorious. The Slaughter was great on both sides/ Four Thousand being left dead on the Field and many/ Welsh Persons of the first distinction were taken Prisoners/ among whom was Owen Tudor (Great-Grandfather to/ Henry the Eighth and a Descendant of the illustrious/ Cadwallader) who was afterwards beheaded at Hereford./ This was the decisive Battle which fixed Edward the/ Fourth on the Throne of England who was proclaimed King in London on the Fifth of March following". Inscribed on plinth: "Erected by Subscription/ in the Year 1799". (BoE, p 206).

Listing NGR: SO4363561981

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Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 206

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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.