Ailesbury Column
AILESBURY COLUMN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1364594
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Ailesbury Column
- Statutory Address:
- AILESBURY COLUMN
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- Date:
- 1999-10-14
- Reference:
- IOE01/00456/30
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1364594
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1964
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ailesbury Column
- Statutory Address 1:
- AILESBURY COLUMN
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.
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:
- AILESBURY COLUMN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Burbage
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 22926 64808
Details
BURBAGE - SU 26 SW 2/1 Ailesbury Column (formerly listed as Column on Main 27.5.64 Avenue) II
Commemorative column on grand avenue from Tottenham House (q.v. Great Bedwyn CP). c1760 and 1789. Ashlar limestone. A single giant Ionic column raised on pedestal within raised enclosure. Capital crowned by cylinder carrying a bronze urn. Inscriptions in white marble inset in pedestal, reading: In Commemoration of / a signal instance of Heaven's Providence/ OVER THESE KINGDOMS, / in the year 1789: / by restoring to perfect Health / from a long and afflicting Disorder / their excellent and beloved Sovereign / GEORGE THE THIRD / This Tablet was Inscribed / by / THOMAS BRUCE EARL OF AILESBURY. South-east side: This Column was erected / by Thomas Bruce Earl of Ailesbury / As a Testimony / of Gratitude / To his ever honoured Uncle Charles Earl of Ailesbury and Elgin / who left to him these estates / and procured for him the Barony of Tottenham. / And of Loyalty / To his most Gracious Sovereign / GEORGE III / who unsolicited conferred on him / the Honour of an Earldom. / But above all / of Piety / TO GOD, FIRST, HIGHEST, / BEST. / Whose blessing consecrateth every gift / And fixeth its true value / MDCCLXXXI. Column believed to have been originally set up c1760 at Brandenburg House, Hammersmith and later removed and rededicated. Around enclosure, iron railings with alternate javelin and wavy heads set on dwarf wall. Urns on corner stanchions.
Listing NGR: SU2292664808
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 312211
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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