Monument to H M Grylls
MONUMENT TO H M GRYLLS, MONUMENT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1196470
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Monument to H M Grylls
- Statutory Address:
- MONUMENT TO H M GRYLLS, MONUMENT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1196470
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Monument to H M Grylls
- Statutory Address 1:
- MONUMENT TO H M GRYLLS, MONUMENT ROAD
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.
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:
- MONUMENT TO H M GRYLLS, MONUMENT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Helston
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 65699 27410
Details
HELSTON
SW6427 MONUMENT ROAD 631-1/4/196 (West side) 22/05/72 Monument to H M Grylls
GV II*
Memorial gateway giving access to bowling green on site of former castle. 1834. By George Wightwick. By public subscription to Humphry Millet Grylls. Granite ashlar with plinth, weathered buttresses, strings and other details including embattled parapet between tall crocketed pinnacles over buttresses flanking doorway; angle buttresses with gablets, all with turned finials. Rectangular plan. Gothic style. Front and rear elevations identical; central 4-centred arched doorway with sunk panels to spandrels; inscribed panel with trefoil end above; flanking bays with tall trefoil-headed niches and quatrefoils above; lower cornice enriched with Tudor roses, parapet cornice over trefoil frieze. A distinguished design, providing a visually prominent stop to Coinagehall Street. (Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840: London: 1978-: 890).
Listing NGR: SW6569927410
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385548
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 890
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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