SHIPWRECK MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

SHIPWRECK MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, DREW STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298268
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:: SHIPWRECK MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address:: SHIPWRECK MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, DREW STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298268
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:: SHIPWRECK MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
Statutory Address 1:: SHIPWRECK MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, DREW STREET

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:: SHIPWRECK MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES EAST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, DREW STREET

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

District:: Torbay (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Brixham
National Grid Reference:: SX 92190 55119

Details

BRIXHAM

SX9255 DREW STREET, Higher Brixham 1946-1/7/109 (South East side) Shipwreck monument approx. 40m east of Church of St Mary the Virgin

GV II

Monument to sailors who died in the great Torbay shipwreck of 11 January 1866. c1866. By Wood of Bristol (inscription). Dressed stone, probably limestone, with some detail in white marble. Square pedestal with moulded base carrying a block carved on south side with a shipwreck scene. Above this is a cross standing on a pile of rocks and having an anchor leaning against it. On the west face of the pedestal is the inscription: OF A FLEET OF 64 BRITISH AND FOREIGN MERCHANT VESSELS ANCHORED IN TORBAY ON THE NIGHT OF JAN 10TH 1866 IN APPARENT SAFETY UPWARDS OF 40 WERE ON THE 11TH DRIVEN FROM THEIR ANCHORS AND WRECKED OR STRANDED MOST OF THEM TOTALLY LOST AND MORE THAN 100 LIVES ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE PERISHED. On the south side of the plinth is another inscription recording that the monument was paid for by the Brixham Shipwrecked Sailors Relief Committee out of the residue of »3,211/9/5 raised by public subscription for the widows and orphans. Enclosing the monument is an iron fence hanging from low square stone posts aligned with the 4 corners.

Listing NGR: SX9219055119

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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.