Valentine Gray Monument
VALENTINE GRAY MONUMENT, CHURCH LITTEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088078
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Valentine Gray Monument
- Statutory Address:
- VALENTINE GRAY MONUMENT, CHURCH LITTEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088078
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Valentine Gray Monument
- Statutory Address 1:
- VALENTINE GRAY MONUMENT, CHURCH LITTEN
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- VALENTINE GRAY MONUMENT, CHURCH LITTEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Newport and Carisbrooke
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 50014 88955
Details
596/0/10011 CHURCH LITTEN
07-AUG-02 Valentine Gray Monument
II
Monument. Erected 1822. Portland stone. Small monument with a square pedestal with inscribed panelled sides and a short obelisk on top with an urn finial. Inscriptions:- To the Memory of Valentine Gray The Little Sweep Interred January the 5th AD 1822 In the 10th Year of His Age. In Testimony of The General Feeling for suffering Innocence. This Monument Is errected By Public Subscription.
NOTE: Erected by public subscription in 1822 in memory of Valentine Gray, the boy chimney sweep who died as a result of ill treatment by his employer Benjamin Davis.
A good example of a small late Georgian public monument.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489664
- 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.
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