Monument to Prince Lee Boo Approximately 10 Metres West of West Tower Church of St Mary
MONUMENT TO PRINCE LEE BOO APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES WEST OF WEST TOWER CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST MARYCHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385868
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Monument to Prince Lee Boo Approximately 10 Metres West of West Tower Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- MONUMENT TO PRINCE LEE BOO APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES WEST OF WEST TOWER CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST MARYCHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385868
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Monument to Prince Lee Boo Approximately 10 Metres West of West Tower Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- MONUMENT TO PRINCE LEE BOO APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES WEST OF WEST TOWER CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST MARYCHURCH STREET
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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:
- MONUMENT TO PRINCE LEE BOO APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES WEST OF WEST TOWER CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST MARYCHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Southwark (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 35144 79837
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3579 ST MARYCHURCH STREET 636-1/6/890 (North side) Monument to Prince Lee Boo approx 10m W of W tower, Church of St Mary
GV II
Chest tomb with related headstone to Prince Lee Boo. Dated 1784. Yellow brick, rectangular tomb with Portland stone, scalloped headstone at one end and inscribed Portland stone ledger. HISTORY: erected by the Hon. East India Company in memory of Prince Lee Boo of the Pelew Islands, whose father had treated the shipwrecked crew of the East Indiaman Antelope' with kindness in 1738. Lee Boo returned to London with Captain Wilson of the Antelope' who is commemorated on the headstone, and died of smallpox. The inscription ends, "Stop, reader, stop, let Nature shed a tear / A prince of mine, Lee Boo, lies buried here".
Listing NGR: TQ3514479837
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 471287
- 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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