FIFE FISHING DISASTER MONUMENT AT HARDWICK CEMETERY

FIFE FISHING DISASTER MONUMENT AT HARDWICK CEMETERY, HARDWICK ROAD

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391461
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-2006
List Entry Name:: FIFE FISHING DISASTER MONUMENT AT HARDWICK CEMETERY
Statutory Address:: FIFE FISHING DISASTER MONUMENT AT HARDWICK CEMETERY, HARDWICK ROAD

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391461
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-2006
List Entry Name:: FIFE FISHING DISASTER MONUMENT AT HARDWICK CEMETERY
Statutory Address 1:: FIFE FISHING DISASTER MONUMENT AT HARDWICK CEMETERY, HARDWICK ROAD

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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FIFE FISHING DISASTER MONUMENT AT HARDWICK CEMETERY, HARDWICK ROAD

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TF 62482 18976

Details

KINGS LYNN

610-1/0/10010 HARDWICK ROAD 03-JAN-06 Fife Fishing Disaster Monument at Hard wick Cemetery

II Cemetery monument. Possibly of Coade Stone. Circa 1876. The monument is in the form of a boat set on two cross pieces on a stepped base. The bow and stern of the boat are inscribed with "KY1298" (KY stands for Kirkady), "Beautiful Star" and "St Monance". One end of the of base is inscribed with "This Monument was Erected by Public Subscription to the Memory of Eight Scottish Fishermen Drowned on the Norfolk Coast in the November Gale 1875" and the other end with "Life How Short" The sides of the base are inscribed with the names of the eight fishermen. The Beautiful Star was one of five boats that were lost with all hands on 19th November 1875 during a storm which broke when they were heading back to East Neuk after the end of East Anglian herring season. Summary of Importance: A late 19th century monument which is of special interest because of its unusual boat-shaped design and fine detailing. It is also of historic interest both for being erected by public subscription to commemorate fishermen lost in a storm and as a reminder of the links between Norfolk and the Scottish fishing industry.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 493870
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.