LADY CATHERINE STEWART MONUMENT

LADY CATHERINE STEWART MONUMENT, HARDINGE AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1084772
Date first listed:: 10-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: LADY CATHERINE STEWART MONUMENT
Statutory Address:: LADY CATHERINE STEWART MONUMENT, HARDINGE AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1084772
Date first listed:: 10-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: LADY CATHERINE STEWART MONUMENT
Statutory Address 1:: LADY CATHERINE STEWART MONUMENT, HARDINGE AVENUE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: LADY CATHERINE STEWART MONUMENT, HARDINGE AVENUE

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

County:: Kent
District:: Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:: Southborough
National Grid Reference:: TQ5705843171

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SOUTHBOROUGH BIRCHWOOD (OFF HARDINGE AVENUE) Lady Catherine Stewart Monument

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Marble monument erected in 1812 in memory of Lady Catherine Stewart, sister of Lord Darnley, wife of Brigadier-General Stewart. He was later Marquis of Londonderry, in succession to Viscount Castlereagh, the Prime Minister, who was his half-brother. Diagonally-fluted cylindrical column with turned base mounted on a square plinth. Plain band around middle on which are carved the various rhymed inscriptions. Column surmounted by flattish urn on a square base. Enclosed by surround of heavy railings, the individual poles being square in section with forged arrow-head points. Corner uprights of larger section. Surround gated. See Colbran's 'Guide to Tunbridge Wells', 1840.

Listing NGR: TQ5705843171

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Legacy System number:: 169305
Legacy System:: LBS

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Colbran, , Guide to Tunbridge Wells, (1840)

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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.