Lifeboat Monument Approximately 100 Metres South East of St Annes Pier

LIFEBOAT MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES SOUTH EAST OF ST ANNES PIER, SOUTH PROMENADE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196340
Date first listed:
15-Feb-1993
List Entry Name:
Lifeboat Monument Approximately 100 Metres South East of St Annes Pier
Statutory Address:
LIFEBOAT MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES SOUTH EAST OF ST ANNES PIER, SOUTH PROMENADE
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1196340
Date first listed:
15-Feb-1993
List Entry Name:
Lifeboat Monument Approximately 100 Metres South East of St Annes Pier
Statutory Address 1:
LIFEBOAT MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES SOUTH EAST OF ST ANNES PIER, SOUTH PROMENADE

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
LIFEBOAT MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 100 METRES SOUTH EAST OF ST ANNES PIER, SOUTH PROMENADE

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Fylde (District Authority)
Parish:
Saint Anne's on the Sea
National Grid Reference:
SD 31924 28563

Details

LYTHAM ST ANNES

SD32NW SOUTH PROMENADE, St Annes 621-1/2/110 (South West side) Lifeboat monument approx. 100m SE of St Annes Pier

GV II

Monument to crew of St Anne's lifeboat. c.1890, by W.B.Rhind of Edinburgh. Commemorates 13 crew of lifeboat, drowned 1886. Sandstone. Ashlar plinth approx. 2 metres square and 2 metres high, the base tapered; tall rock pedestal approx. 3 metres high surmounted by over-life-size statue of lifeboatman. A lettered panel on the south side of the pedestal records that the monument was erected by public subscription, listing the names of the crew who lost their lives attempting to rescue the crew of the German barque "Mexico" wrecked off Southport on 9 December 1886; and the east side of the base is inscribed "W.B.RHIND Sc EDINBUGH". (See also the "Laura Janet" monument in the churchyard of the church of St Cuthbert, Church Road, Lytham.)

Listing NGR: SD3192428563

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Legacy System number:
385313
Legacy System:
LBS

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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.

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