Memorial to Captain James Hanson and the Crew of HMS Brazen
MEMORIAL TO CAPTAIN JAMES HANSON AND THE CREW OF HMS BRAZEN, CHURCH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206242
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Memorial to Captain James Hanson and the Crew of HMS Brazen
- Statutory Address:
- MEMORIAL TO CAPTAIN JAMES HANSON AND THE CREW OF HMS BRAZEN, CHURCH HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206242
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Feb-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Memorial to Captain James Hanson and the Crew of HMS Brazen
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEMORIAL TO CAPTAIN JAMES HANSON AND THE CREW OF HMS BRAZEN, CHURCH HILL
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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.
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:
- MEMORIAL TO CAPTAIN JAMES HANSON AND THE CREW OF HMS BRAZEN, CHURCH HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- East Sussex
- District:
- Lewes (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newhaven
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 44262 01164
Details
NEWHAVEN
TQ4401SW CHURCH HILL
769-1/7/4 (East side)
04/03/76 Memorial to Captain James Hanson and
the crew of HMS Brazen,
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH HILL, Newhaven
Monument to Captain James Hansom
...etc in NE corner of churchyard)
GV II
Obelisk memorial with railings. Dated 1800. Ashlar stone with
slate panels and cast-iron railings. About 2m high. Obelisk on
plinth, design of seaweed and shells above, with dolphins
below the slate panels one each face of the plinth; these are
inscribed with the details of the wreck of HMS Brazen, which
foundered off the cliffs of Newhaven on the night of January
20th, 1800, with the loss of all lives save one. The bodies of
Captain Hanson and 75 of the 104 men lost are interred in the
graveyard. Hanson had served under Captain Vancouver on his
celebrated voyage of 1791-4, when he curcumnavigated the world
and charted part of North America. Many of the placenames
given then remain, but Hanson Point has been destroyed.
Listing NGR: TQ4426201164
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, 30 January 2018.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 374194
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 20 July 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/17156
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 January 2018 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/255801
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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