James Burton Monument

James Burton Monument, Gloucester Lodge, Quarry Hill, St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0HG

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1286757
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1951
List Entry Name:: James Burton Monument
Statutory Address:: James Burton Monument, Gloucester Lodge, Quarry Hill, St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0HG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1286757
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1951
List Entry Name:: James Burton Monument
Statutory Address 1:: James Burton Monument, Gloucester Lodge, Quarry Hill, St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0HG

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: James Burton Monument, Gloucester Lodge, Quarry Hill, St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0HG

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

County:: East Sussex
District:: Hastings (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 79852 09086

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22/10/2019

TQ 7909 21/209

St Leonards QUARRY HILL Gloucester Lodge James Burton Monument

(Formerly listed as James Burton Monument, ST LEONARDS GARDENS)

19.1.51

II Situated within the grounds of Gloucester Lodge, north of St Leonards Gardens, which were the Subscription Gardens of James Burton's original lay-out of St Leonards, is a small monument to James Burton erected later in the C19. This consists of a short pink granite obelisk with a rounded head, standing on a plinth with a semi-circular basin in front of it and a fountain pipe above the plinth emitting a jet of water into the basin. Towards the head of the obelisk is a bronze plaque of Burton's profile with the words "James Burton, Founder of St Leonards, 1828. Born 1761. Died 1837." beneath the plaque.

Listing NGR: TQ7985209086

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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.