GUN FROM HMS ANSON IN CENTRAL POSITION BEHIND GUILDHALL

GUN FROM HMS ANSON IN CENTRAL POSITION BEHIND GUILDHALL, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196493
Date first listed:: 22-May-1972
List Entry Name:: GUN FROM HMS ANSON IN CENTRAL POSITION BEHIND GUILDHALL
Statutory Address:: GUN FROM HMS ANSON IN CENTRAL POSITION BEHIND GUILDHALL, MARKET PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196493
Date first listed:: 22-May-1972
List Entry Name:: GUN FROM HMS ANSON IN CENTRAL POSITION BEHIND GUILDHALL
Statutory Address 1:: GUN FROM HMS ANSON IN CENTRAL POSITION BEHIND GUILDHALL, MARKET PLACE

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:: GUN FROM HMS ANSON IN CENTRAL POSITION BEHIND GUILDHALL, MARKET PLACE

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Helston
National Grid Reference:: SW6592927490

Details

HELSTON

SW6427 MARKET PLACE 631-1/4/144 Gun from HMS Anson in central 22/05/72 position behind Guildhall

GV II

Gun from warship. c1800. From HMS Anson which was wrecked on Loe Bar, Porthleven on 29.12.1807. Now mounted on replica wooden gun carriage constructed by HMS Seahawk (The Royal Naval Air Station at Culdrose, Helston) and donated November 1965 by the descendents of Henry Trengrouse, inventor of the Rocket Life Saving Apparatus whose grave (qv) is in the churchyard of the Church of St Michael (qv).

Listing NGR: SW6592927490

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Legacy System number:: 385500
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.