MEMORIAL TO THE 15TH EARL OF SHREWSBURY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1374741
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: MEMORIAL TO THE 15TH EARL OF SHREWSBURY
Statutory Address:: MEMORIAL TO THE 15TH EARL OF SHREWSBURY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1374741
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: MEMORIAL TO THE 15TH EARL OF SHREWSBURY
Statutory Address 1:: MEMORIAL TO THE 15TH EARL OF SHREWSBURY

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: MEMORIAL TO THE 15TH EARL OF SHREWSBURY

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County:: Staffordshire
District:: Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:: Farley
National Grid Reference:: SK 07408 43297

Details

SK 0643-0743 FARLEY C.P. ALTON PARK

12/98 Memorial to the 15th Earl 3/1/67 of Shrewsbury GV II*

Memorial. Circa 1830. Ashlar and cast iron. Square rusticated pedestal with stepped plinth and oversailing cap; surmounted by a circular base inscribed "HE MADE THE DESERT SMILE": 6 Corinthian columns define a cylindrical space containing a pedestalled bust of the 15th Earl of Shrewsbury, and supporting an entablature and oversailing dome with fish- scale decoration, scrolls and a central foliated crest. The memorial is based on the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens (334 B.C.). This item forms part of the important garden layout at Alton Towers (q.v.) which is included at Grade I on the HBMC Gardens Register.B.o.E., p. 58.

Listing NGR: SK0740843297

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Legacy System number:: 275093
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 58
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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 38 Staffordshire,

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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.