Monument on Afton Down

MONUMENT ON AFTON DOWN, A3055

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1292708
Date first listed:
28-Mar-1994
Statutory Address:
MONUMENT ON AFTON DOWN, A3055
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1292708
Date first listed:
28-Mar-1994
Statutory Address 1:
MONUMENT ON AFTON DOWN, A3055

Location

Statutory Address:
MONUMENT ON AFTON DOWN, A3055

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

District:
Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Freshwater
National Grid Reference:
SZ 35261 85555

Details

FRESHWATER

SZ38NE A 3055 (OFF) 1354-0/5/168 Monument on Afton Down

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Monument c.1846. Stone obelisk about 4 feet high to E.L.M. Inscribed: "Erected in remembrance of a most dear and only child who was suddently removed into eternity by a fall from the adjacent cliff on the rocks beneath 28th August 1846". Each face bears a biblical text variously:- "Reader prepare to meet they doom for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth", "Jesus said I am the resurrection and the life", "In the midst of life we are in death" and "He cometh forth like a flower and is cast down. He fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not".

Listing NGR: SZ3526185555

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393055
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