Memorial to Bluecap in the Yard of the Cheshire Hunt Kennels
MEMORIAL TO BLUECAP IN THE YARD OF THE CHESHIRE HUNT KENNELS, KENNEL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287520
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Memorial to Bluecap in the Yard of the Cheshire Hunt Kennels
- Statutory Address:
- MEMORIAL TO BLUECAP IN THE YARD OF THE CHESHIRE HUNT KENNELS, KENNEL LANE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14325/05
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287520
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Memorial to Bluecap in the Yard of the Cheshire Hunt Kennels
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEMORIAL TO BLUECAP IN THE YARD OF THE CHESHIRE HUNT KENNELS, KENNEL LANE
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:
- MEMORIAL TO BLUECAP IN THE YARD OF THE CHESHIRE HUNT KENNELS, KENNEL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cuddington
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 59871 69868
Details
SJ 56 NE
5/23
CUDDINGTON C.P.
KENNEL LANE (West side)
Memorial to Bluecap in the yard of the Cheshire Hunt Kennels
GV
II
Obelisk: erected 1772 but moved here from Forest Hill c1959. Ashlar
buff and pink sandstone. The square base is surrounded by a low wall
carrying stout plain bar iron railings. On the base is a plain square
pier with moulded plinth and cornice carrying an obelisk. The north
face of the pier has a brass plaque reading :
To the Memory of old Bluecap a Fox Hound the late
Property of the Hon. John Smith Barry
This obelisk Reader is a Monument rais'd
To a shade, tho' a Hound, that deserves to be prais'd
For if Life's but a Stage where on each act a Part
And true greatness a Form, that's deriv'd from the Heart
If Fame, Honour and Glory depend on the Deed
Then O Bluecap, rare Bluecap, well boast of thy Breed
if no Tear, yet a Glass, will we pour on the Brute
So high fam'd as he was in the glorious Pursuit
But no more of this Theme, since the Life's but a Race
And Bluecap but gone to the Death of the CHACE
in good copperplate script.
Bluecap was a famous foxhound of the Tarporley Hunt Club who won a
challenge race for 500 guineas on Newmarket Heath in 1763.
Listing NGR: SJ5987169868
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 402173
- 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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