DAVID RICARDO MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS

DAVID RICARDO MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, HARDENHUISH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1268099
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-1978
List Entry Name:: DAVID RICARDO MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
Statutory Address:: DAVID RICARDO MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, HARDENHUISH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1268099
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-1978
Date of most recent amendment:: 16-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: DAVID RICARDO MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
Statutory Address 1:: DAVID RICARDO MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, HARDENHUISH LANE

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:: DAVID RICARDO MONUMENT IN CHURCHYARD OF CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, HARDENHUISH LANE

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Chippenham
National Grid Reference:: ST 90979 74758

Details

CHIPPENHAM

ST97SW HARDENHUISH LANE 930-1/1/40 David Ricardo Monument in churchyard 22/06/78 of Church of St Nicholas (Formerly Listed as: HARDENHUISH LANE Monument to David Ricardo in churchyard of St Nicholas' Church)

II*

Monument to David Ricardo MP. 1823. By William Pitts. Limestone ashlar and marble. Greek Revival style. Square plan. To each corner of a stepped panelled plinth are fluted Doric columns supporting a simple moulded cornice, carved floriate cresting, and to the centre is a smaller plinth and shallow urn. Beneath, in the centre, is the upper part and capital of a Corinthian column surrounded by naked hermaphrodite weepers. The monument is surrounded by long/short railings with spherical finials on a chamfered plinth.

Listing NGR: ST9097974758

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Legacy System number:: 462237
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.