CAPON TREE MONUMENT

CAPON TREE MONUMENT, CAPON TREE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1335531
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1984
List Entry Name:: CAPON TREE MONUMENT
Statutory Address:: CAPON TREE MONUMENT, CAPON TREE ROAD

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Date:: 2003-08-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1335531
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1984
List Entry Name:: CAPON TREE MONUMENT
Statutory Address 1:: CAPON TREE MONUMENT, CAPON TREE 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:: CAPON TREE MONUMENT, CAPON TREE ROAD

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

District:: Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Brampton
National Grid Reference:: NY 52574 59809

Details

NY 55 NW BRAMPTON CAPON TREE ROAD BRAMPTON

13/6 Capon Tree Monument

II

Monument. Dated 1904 by Laing and Beattie of Carlisle, paid for by public subscription. Carved red sandstone. Octagonal steps, tapering column surmounted by circular head with carved Celtic cross. Inscribed, THIS STONE IS PLACED TO MARK THE SITE OF THE ANCIENT CAPON TREE UNDER WHOSE SHADE THE JUDGES OF ASSIZE RESTED AND UPON WHOSE BRANCHES WERE EXECUTED (in 1746) FOR ADHERENCE TO THE CAUSE OF THE ROYAL LINE OF STUART, COLONEL JAMES INNES, CAPTAIN PATRICK LINDESAY, RONALD MACDONALD, THOMAS PARK, PETER TAYLOR, MICHAEL DELAW. See G.G. Mounsey, Carlisle in 1745.

Listing NGR: NY5257459809

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Mounsey, G G, Carlisle in 1745

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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.