Lifeboat Monument Opposite Scarisbrick Avenue
LIFEBOAT MONUMENT OPPOSITE SCARISBRICK AVENUE, PROMENADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379732
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Lifeboat Monument Opposite Scarisbrick Avenue
- Statutory Address:
- LIFEBOAT MONUMENT OPPOSITE SCARISBRICK AVENUE, PROMENADE
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- Date:
- 2004-06-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/12610/02
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379732
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Lifeboat Monument Opposite Scarisbrick Avenue
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIFEBOAT MONUMENT OPPOSITE SCARISBRICK AVENUE, PROMENADE
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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:
- LIFEBOAT MONUMENT OPPOSITE SCARISBRICK AVENUE, PROMENADE
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:
- SD 33360 17362
Details
SOUTHPORT
SD3317SW PROMENADE
664-1/11/157 (West side)
Lifeboat Monument opposite
Scarisbrick Avenue
GV II
Monumental obelisk. Commemorates the loss of the lifeboat
"Eliza Fernley" with 14 crew in 1886; the commissioning of the
lifeboat "Edith and Annie" in 1888; the achievements of 2
other former lifeboats; and the public holiday celebrating the
majority of the Corporation of this borough and the jubilee of
Queen Victoria. Erected 28 June 1888. Grey granite.
Base of 3 square steps, plinth with corner colonettes and
bronze plaques, obelisk with chamfered corners. The plaque on
the south side is blank but the others are lettered, that on
the north side recording the loss of the "Eliza Fernley" while
attempting the rescue of the crew of the German barque
"Mexico" during a storm on 9 December 1886 (also commemorated
by Eliza Fernley monument in cemetery, Duke Street, qv).
Listing NGR: SD3336017362
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479137
- 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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