MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES WEST OF BERRY HEAD HOTEL

MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES WEST OF BERRY HEAD HOTEL, BERRY HEAD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298274
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES WEST OF BERRY HEAD HOTEL
Statutory Address:: MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES WEST OF BERRY HEAD HOTEL, BERRY HEAD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298274
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES WEST OF BERRY HEAD HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: MONUMENT APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES WEST OF BERRY HEAD HOTEL, BERRY HEAD ROAD

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 APPROXIMATELY 30 METRES WEST OF BERRY HEAD HOTEL, BERRY HEAD ROAD

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 93817 56724

Details

BRIXHAM

SX95NW BERRY HEAD ROAD, Berry Head 1946-1/2/21 (North side) Monument approx. 30m west of Berry Head Hotel

GV II

Monument. Between 1834-47. Devonian limestone ashlar. Square pedestal with chamfered plinth, panelled sides and flat projecting cap. Panel on north side incised with inscription TO THE UNKNOWN DEAD. The monument stands in the front garden of Berry Head House (now the Berry Head Hotel (qv)), which was occupied by the Rev HF Lyte, author of the hymn 'Abide with Me', between 1834 and 1847. Gregory says that Lyte erected the monument: 'whilst engaged in levelling a mound of earth for gardening purposes (he) came across a quantity of human bones, which were at once covered up, and commemorated as just stated'. The monument, or a structure in approximately the same position, seems to be shown on the Brixham tithe map of 1838. (Gregory C: Brixham in Devonia: Totnes: 1896-: 78; 1838-: BRIXHAM TITHE MAP).

Listing NGR: SX9381756724

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Gregory, C, Brixham in Devonia, (1896), 78

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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.