TENNYSON'S BEACON

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1292664
Date first listed:: 18-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: TENNYSON'S BEACON
Statutory Address:: TENNYSON'S BEACON

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1292664
Date first listed:: 18-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: TENNYSON'S BEACON
Statutory Address 1:: TENNYSON'S BEACON

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TENNYSON'S BEACON

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

District:: Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Totland
National Grid Reference:: SZ 32490 85325

Details

TOTLAND

SZ38NW TENNYSON DOWN 1354-0/4/351 Tennyson's Beacon 18/01/67

II

Commemorative cross. Early C20. Massive granite celtic cross with incised decoration, moulded plinth and iron railed enclosure. This was erected to the memory of Alfred Lord Tennyson on the highest point of one of his regular walks from his house Farringford (see item Freshwater Parish) where he lived between 1853 until his death in 1892. The inscription reads:- "In memory of Alfred Lord Tennyson this Cross is raised as a beacon to sailors by the people of Freshwater and other friends in England and America". On the other side is the inscription:- "Tennyson. Born August 6 1809. Died October 6 1892".

Listing NGR: SZ3249085325

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Legacy System number:: 393240
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.