MEMORIAL TO THE 79TH REGIMENT

MEMORIAL TO THE 79TH REGIMENT, CLIFTON DOWN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1205759
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: MEMORIAL TO THE 79TH REGIMENT
Statutory Address:: MEMORIAL TO THE 79TH REGIMENT, CLIFTON DOWN

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Date:: 1999-10-13
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1205759
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: MEMORIAL TO THE 79TH REGIMENT
Statutory Address 1:: MEMORIAL TO THE 79TH REGIMENT, CLIFTON DOWN

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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:: MEMORIAL TO THE 79TH REGIMENT, CLIFTON DOWN

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

District:: City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST 56983 73276

Details

BRISTOL

ST5673SE CLIFTON DOWN, Clifton 901-1/7/755 (South East side) 08/01/59 Memorial to the 79th Regiment

II*

War memorial. Erected 1766 by General Draper, moved 1882. Portland stone and purple slate. Rectangular plinth with angle buttresses, surmounted by a sarcophagus with scrolled brackets at the corners, and an urn with a flame. HISTORICAL NOTE: erected in the garden of Manilla House by its owner, the General, to commemorate the Indian part of the Seven Years War 1759-62. Moved when Manilla Road was built. A very early war memorial.

Listing NGR: ST5698373276

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 15 December 2016.

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Legacy System number:: 379213
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Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 15/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/183652
War Memorials Register, accessed 15/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/3168

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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.