Barrow Monument
BARROW MONUMENT, HOAD HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1375003
- Date first listed:
- 02-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Barrow Monument
- Statutory Address:
- BARROW MONUMENT, HOAD HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1375003
- Date first listed:
- 02-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Barrow Monument
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARROW MONUMENT, HOAD HILL
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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:
- BARROW MONUMENT, HOAD HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ulverston
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 29460 79072
Details
ULVERSTON
SD27NE HOAD HILL 626-1/1/36 Barrow Monument 02/03/50
II*
Seamark and monument to Sir John Barrow. 1850. Designed by Mr Andrew Trimen. Limestone ashlar (from Birkrigg Quarry), with shaft now rendered. Built to resemble a lighthouse, over 30m high and set on the summit of Hoad Hill. Above a projecting plain cornice is a lantern with round-arched openings, capped by a cornice and ashlar dome. Narrow slit openings in the shaft light the stair. On the west side is the entrance doorway. The lintel is inscribed: 'IN HONOUR OF SIR JOHN BARROW, BART. ERECTED A.D. 1850.' Above is a panel carved with his shield and crest. INTERIOR: not inspected. Said originally to contain a circular apartment on the ground floor, with a marble bust over the doorway, Portland stone sculpture attached to the walls, a plate engraved with names of subscribers, and an inscription around the domed roof. The lantern said to be reached by a flight of limestone steps with an iron balustrade and to have pilasters engraved with the names of distinguished Arctic voyagers. HISTORICAL NOTE: Sir John Barrow was born at Dragley Beck Cottage (qv) in 1764. He travelled to China and to South Africa, became Secretary to the Admiralty in 1804, promoted expeditions to the Arctic, and died in 1848 at the age of 85. (Rimmer, Revd JS: The Story of Ulverston: Ulverston: 1925-: 20).
Listing NGR: SD2946079072
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 459921
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rimmer, Reverend J S, The Story of Ulverston, (1925), 20
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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