Countess's Pillar
COUNTESS'S PILLAR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1326777
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Countess's Pillar
- Statutory Address:
- COUNTESS'S PILLAR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1326777
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Countess's Pillar
- Statutory Address 1:
- COUNTESS'S PILLAR
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- COUNTESS'S PILLAR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brougham
- National Grid Reference:
- NY5461628959
Details
NY 52 NW BROUGHAM BROUGHAM
9/10 Countess's Pillar
6.2.68
GV II*
Monument/sundial, scheduled A.M. Dated 1656 with C20 restoration. Dressed pink
sandstone partly painted. Octagonal column on chamfered base with moulded cap
and cuboid block under shaped finial. The block has sundials on 3 faces with
metal gnomons and painted faces; the front with Clifford arms and the misleading
date 1654. The rear sundial has an inscribed plate: THIS PILLAR WAS ERECTED
ANNO 1656 BY YE HON'BLE ANNE COUNTESS DOWAGER OF PEMBROKE AND DAUGHTER AND SOLE
HEIRE OF YE RT HONO'BLE GEORGE EARL OF CUMBERLAND AND FOR A MEMORIAL OF HER LAST
PARTING IN THIS PLACE WITH HER GOOD AND PIOUS MOTHER YE RT HONO'BLE MARGARET
COUNTESS DOWAGER OF CUMBERLAND YE 3RD OF APRIL 1616. IN MEMORY WHEREOF SHE ALSO
LEFT AN ANNUITY OF FOUR POUNDS TO BE DISTRIBUTED TO YE POOR WITHIN THIS PARISH
OF BROUGHAM EVERY 2ND DAY OF APRIL FOR EVER UPON YE STONE TABLE HERE HARD BY.
Set on a flagged base with C20 railings around it. Nearby is the alms table
listed separately. Restored at the cost of £3,000 by English Heritage in time
for the distribution of alms on 2 April 1986. See RCHM, Westmorland, 1936,
p.62.
Listing NGR: NY5461628959
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 74213
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory Of Westmorland in Inventory Of Westmorland, (1936)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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