KING ALFRED MEMORIAL

KING ALFRED MEMORIAL, SHORE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1153297
Date first listed:: 21-Mar-1983
List Entry Name:: KING ALFRED MEMORIAL
Statutory Address:: KING ALFRED MEMORIAL, SHORE ROAD

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Date:: 2002-06-07
Reference:: IOE01/07074/11
Rights:: © Mr Martin Roberts. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1153297
Date first listed:: 21-Mar-1983
List Entry Name:: KING ALFRED MEMORIAL
Statutory Address 1:: KING ALFRED MEMORIAL, SHORE ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: KING ALFRED MEMORIAL, SHORE ROAD

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Swanage
National Grid Reference:: SZ 03133 78890

Details

SHORE ROAD 1. 5190 King Alfred Memorial SZ 0378 NW 5/139 II

2. Erected 1862 by John Mowlem. A granite Tuscan column, set on 2 stone steps and inscribed - "In commemoration of a great naval battle fought with the Danes -in Swanage Bay by Alfred the Great. AD 877". "Erected by Johm Mowlem. AD 1862". On top of the columns are 4 cannon balls, brought from the Crimean War. (This motif was repeated round the tennis courts of Purbeck House qv). A prominent feature of the sea front.

Listing NGR: SZ0313378890

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Legacy System number:: 108266
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.