Eliza Fernley Lifeboat monument in Cemetery
Eliza Fernley Lifeboat monument in Cemetery, Duke Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379580
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Eliza Fernley Lifeboat monument in Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- Eliza Fernley Lifeboat monument in Cemetery, Duke Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379580
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Eliza Fernley Lifeboat monument in Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- Eliza Fernley Lifeboat monument in Cemetery, Duke Street
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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.
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:
- Eliza Fernley Lifeboat monument in Cemetery, Duke Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD3415615880
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/10/2020
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664-1/1/33
SOUTHPORT
DUKE STREET (north east side)
Eliza Fernley Lifeboat monument in Cemetery
GV
II
Monument to the lifeboat crew. Probably c1888-1890. By Ernest Walter Johnson architect, and sculptor Thomas Robinson. Commemorates 14 members of the crew of the Southport lifeboat "Eliza Fernley". Sandstone and polished granite, with marble plaques. Rectangular plan.
EXTERIOR: in the form of a tomb chest raised on a high battered plinth. Low ashlar base with rope-work border and round-topped corner bollards with iron mooring rings; plinth of three courses of large rock-faced sandstone blocks; polished granite chest with terminal pilasters, a sunk panel in each side, a moulded cornice, and the lid carved in representation of a broken mast battered by waves. The panels of the northeast and southeast sides contain lettered marble plaques; that on the north west side contains a good carved relief depicting the lifeboat and its crew caught under the crest of a mountainous wave, that on south west side, relief of anchor and lifebelt, with “Eliza Fernley” on the belt
HISTORY: the crew lost their lives on the night of 9 December 1886 (together with the crew of the St Anne's lifeboat) while attempting to rescue the crew of the German barque "Mexico". This tragedy is also commemorated by an obelisk on the Promenade (qv).
Listing NGR: SD3415615880
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478967
- 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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