Hoy's Monument
HOY'S MONUMENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209244
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Hoy's Monument
- Statutory Address:
- HOY'S MONUMENT
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04752/01
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209244
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Hoy's Monument
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOY'S MONUMENT
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:
- HOY'S MONUMENT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chale
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 49597 78800
Details
GODSHILL
SZ457NE ST CATHERINE'S DOWN 1353-0/5/192 Hoy's Monument 18/01/67 (Formerly Listed as: CHALE Hoy's Mmonument)
II
Monument. 1814 with further tablet added in 1857. Comprizes a large tapering tooled ashlar Tuscan column surmounted by a cornice and large ball finial on large tooled ashlar plinth with moulded cornice and base. On one side of the plinth is the inscription "In commemoration of the visit of His Majesty Alexander I Emperor of all the Russias to Great Britain in 1814. In remembrance of many happy years residence in his dominions this pillar was erected by Michael Hoy. (He was the owner of the Hermitage, of which only the stables remain from this period). On the opposite side is the inscription "This tablet was erected by William Henry Dawes Late Lieutenant of HM 22nd Regiment in honour of those brave men of the allied armies who fell on the Alma and at the siege of Sebastepol AD 1857. A prominent land and sea mark.
Listing NGR: SZ4959778800
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392783
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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