BARNSTON MEMORIAL

BARNSTON MEMORIAL, CHURTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1279425
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: BARNSTON MEMORIAL
Statutory Address:: BARNSTON MEMORIAL, CHURTON ROAD

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Date:: 1999-09-13
Reference:: IOE01/01775/19
Rights:: © Mr Michael J Tuck. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1279425
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: BARNSTON MEMORIAL
Statutory Address 1:: BARNSTON MEMORIAL, CHURTON ROAD

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:: BARNSTON MEMORIAL, CHURTON ROAD

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

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Farndon
National Grid Reference:: SJ4136055174

Details

SJ 45 NW 1/31

FARNDON C.P. CHURTON ROAD West Side Barnston Memorial

GII* Obelisk,circa 1858,slender,of yellow sandstone with cast iron railings decayed and partly removed.Concave mouldings at base of obelisk shaft and on plinth accentuate the impression of slenderness.On podia attached to the plinth are four lions crouching,mourning.The heavy funerary rail survives on three of the quadrants between the lions.On front of plinth BARNSTON is carved (in plain projecting capitals)above a circular plaque bearing a wreath.On left side is inscribed ERECTED IN MEMORY OF ROGER BARNSTON ESQ OF CREWE HILL,MAJOR AND BREVET LIEUT.COLONEL OF HER MAJESTY'S 90TH LIGHT INFANTRY,CB AND KNIGHT OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR AND OF THE ORDER OF MEJDEDIE BY HIS TENANTS AND FRIENDS.HE SERVED IN THE CRIMEAN WAR FROM THE 5TH DECEMBER 1854 AND WAS PRESENT AT THE SIEGE AND FALL OF SEBASTOPOL AND ALSO IN THE INDIAN MUTINY CAMPAIGN IN 1857 IN WHICH HE SUFFERED A SEVERE WOUND WHILE GALLANTLY LEADING AN ASSAULT AT THE RELIEF OF LUCK NOW ON THE 18TH NOVEMBER 1857 FROM THE EFFECTS OF WHICH HE DIED AT CAWNPORE ON THE 23RD DECEMBER 1857,AGED 31 YEARS,AND WAS INTERRED IN THE MILITARY CEMETERY OF THAT STATION.

Listing NGR: SJ 41360 55174

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Legacy System number:: 403429
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.