TOMB OF SIR HARRY SMITH EAST NORTH EAST OF CEMETERY CHAPEL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380146
Date first listed:: 08-Mar-2000
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF SIR HARRY SMITH EAST NORTH EAST OF CEMETERY CHAPEL
Statutory Address:: TOMB OF SIR HARRY SMITH EAST NORTH EAST OF CEMETERY CHAPEL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380146
Date first listed:: 08-Mar-2000
List Entry Name:: TOMB OF SIR HARRY SMITH EAST NORTH EAST OF CEMETERY CHAPEL
Statutory Address 1:: TOMB OF SIR HARRY SMITH EAST NORTH EAST OF CEMETERY CHAPEL

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.

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TOMB OF SIR HARRY SMITH EAST NORTH EAST OF CEMETERY CHAPEL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Fenland (District Authority)
Parish:: Whittlesey
National Grid Reference:: TL 27492 97307

Details

WHITTLESEY

TL2797 Tomb of Sir Harry Smith, East North Ea 345/20/10008 st of Cemetery Chapel 08-MAR-00

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Chest tomb. c1860. Granite and limestone with decorative cast-iron railings. mounted on the curbing enclosing the plot. The granite tomb has inscriptions to Lt.-Gen. Sir Harry Smith, died 1860 , and his wife Juana, died 1872. The base is inscribed with the many battles in which Sir Harry fought. Side has large bronze plaque with the words spoken by the Duke of Wellington in the House of Lords, probably at the time of the Thanks of Parliament given to Sir Harry on his victory at Aliwal 1846. He became Governor of Cape Colony in 1847 and the towns of Harrismith and Ladysmith are named after the pair. The tomb stands east north east of the cemetery chapel (qv).

Listing NGR: TL2749297307

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 479643
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.