Frankland Monument

FRANKLAND MONUMENT, STANMER PARK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380952
Date first listed:
02-Nov-1954
List Entry Name:
Frankland Monument
Statutory Address:
FRANKLAND MONUMENT, STANMER PARK
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380952
Date first listed:
02-Nov-1954
Date of most recent amendment:
26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:
Frankland Monument
Statutory Address 1:
FRANKLAND MONUMENT, STANMER PARK

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FRANKLAND MONUMENT, STANMER PARK

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

District:
The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Park:
South Downs
National Grid Reference:
TQ 33625 09177

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ3309 STANMER PARK
577-1/9/1102 Frankland monument
02/11/54
(Formerly Listed as:
STANMER PARK
Monument to the South West of
Stanmer House)

II

Monument to Frederick Frankland. 1775. Coade stone, triangular
in plan, and Classical in style. The base carries a Latin
inscription and is surmounted by a slightly concave column
resting on 3 tortoises, all now headless; the column itself is
composed, from the base upwards, of a rope moulding, concave
fluting, a swelling pattern of palm leaves and then roundels
in a rectangular panel on each face; 2 of the roundels enclose
Classical figures and the third an inscription recording that
the monument was erected by Thomas, Lord Pelham, and his wife
Ann who was the daughter of Frederick Frankland; palmette
frieze, egg-and-dart cornice, and fluted blocking course; the
whole surmounted by a funerary urn.



Listing NGR: TQ3362509177

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
481276
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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