MEMORIAL TO RICHARD YOUNG

LYNN ROAD, WISBECH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1331618
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1969
List Entry Name:: MEMORIAL TO RICHARD YOUNG
Statutory Address:: LYNN ROAD, WISBECH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1331618
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1969
List Entry Name:: MEMORIAL TO RICHARD YOUNG
Statutory Address 1:: LYNN ROAD, WISBECH

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:: LYNN ROAD, WISBECH

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Fenland (District Authority)
Parish:: Wisbech
National Grid Reference:: TF4650110061

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 03/03/2016

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WISBECH, LYNN ROAD (South Side), Memorial to Richard Young

(Formerly listed as Memorial to William Young)

10.2.69

GV II

Memorial to Richard Young (b.1809, d.1871), greatest Wisbech ship owner. Erected 1872 and restored after gale damage 1883. Designed by J. Wallis Chapman of London. Pink granite, sandstone dressings. Column with free Corinthian capital and finial with trefoiled panels surmounted by an urn. Square plinth with corner buttresses. Inscribed 'Memorial to Richard Young'. P.H. Peckover, photographic collection, 1931. W. & F. Mus. Gardiner, History of Wisbech, pp.185, 280, 1898. VCH Cambs, p.265.

Listing NGR: TF4650110061

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Legacy System number:: 48277
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gardiner, F J, History of Wisbech and Neighbourhood, (1898), 185
Gardiner, F J, History of Wisbech and Neighbourhood, (1898), 280
Salzman, L F , The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1953), 265

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.