Captain Cook Memorial
CAPTAIN COOK MEMORIAL, BRIDGE STREET (SOUTH END)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150680
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Captain Cook Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- CAPTAIN COOK MEMORIAL, BRIDGE STREET (SOUTH END)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150680
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Captain Cook Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAPTAIN COOK MEMORIAL, BRIDGE STREET (SOUTH END)
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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:
- CAPTAIN COOK MEMORIAL, BRIDGE STREET (SOUTH END)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Ayton
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 55721 10637
Details
GREAT AYTON BRIDGE STREET NZ 5510 (east side, south end) 11/34 Captain Cook Memorial
GV II Obelisk erected 1934. Rusticated granite low obelisk on base of two square steps. 2 bronze plaques. (1) On shaft: Lieutenant James Cook RN of the Endeavour, first sighted Australia at this point which he named Point Hicks after Lieutenant Zachary Hicks who first saw the land April 19th ships' log date, April 20th calendar date, 1770. (2) On base: This monument is made of stones hewn from the rocks of Cafe Everard close to Point Hicks, Victoria, and is a facsimile of the memorial erected there. It here marks the site of Captain Cook's cottage, removed to Melbourne in Victoria's centenary year, 1934. Presented by Russell Grimwade. Included for historical interest.
Listing NGR: NZ5572110637
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332962
- 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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