Nelsons Monument
NELSONS MONUMENT, MONUMENT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1246057
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Nelsons Monument
- Statutory Address:
- NELSONS MONUMENT, MONUMENT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1246057
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Nelsons Monument
- Statutory Address 1:
- NELSONS MONUMENT, MONUMENT ROAD
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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:
- NELSONS MONUMENT, MONUMENT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Great Yarmouth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 52999 05508
Details
GREAT YARMOUTH
TG5205 MONUMENT ROAD 839-1/7/121 Nelson's Monument 27/06/53
I
Also known as: Norfolk Pillar MONUMENT ROAD. Monument. 1817-19. By William Wilkins. The first monument in England to Admiral Lord Nelson (Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square was 1840-43 but the column in Dublin was of 1808). The monument consists of a fluted Greek Doric column on a square pedestal standing on a raised plinth. The pedestal has one recessed niche in each face and a frieze of laurel wreaths. In the cornice is a plaque to each face inscribed with the name of a naval engagement. An inscription records Wilkins as the architect and various other dignitaries: John Walker, master mason; Francis Braidwood, contractor; Archibald Swinton, foreman. The plinth is of stone and has several recesses and projections. The column is surmounted by a figure of Britannia in fibreglass standing on a disc supported by Caryatid figures. The figures were of Coade stone when built, replaced in concrete in 1896 and finally in fibreglass during the restoration of 1982-4.
Listing NGR: TG5299905508
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468565
- 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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