MONUMENT ON AFTON DOWN

MONUMENT ON AFTON DOWN, A3055

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1292708
Date first listed:: 28-Mar-1994
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT ON AFTON DOWN
Statutory Address:: MONUMENT ON AFTON DOWN, A3055

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

II

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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Legacy System number:: 393055
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.