QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIAL CROSS, QUEEN'S GARDEN

Queen Victoria Memorial Cross, Queen's Garden, Station Road, Sedbergh

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Overview

A memorial Anglo-Celtic cross to Queen Victoria, erected at the centre of a public garden in 1902. The cross was designed by Hicks & Charlewood with sculptural work by H T Miles, and the garden was designed by Thomas Mawson. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1400656
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-2012
List Entry Name:: QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIAL CROSS, QUEEN'S GARDEN
Statutory Address:: Queen Victoria Memorial Cross, Queen's Garden, Station Road, Sedbergh

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1400656
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-2012
List Entry Name:: QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIAL CROSS, QUEEN'S GARDEN
Statutory Address 1:: Queen Victoria Memorial Cross, Queen's Garden, Station Road, Sedbergh

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Queen Victoria Memorial Cross, Queen's Garden, Station Road, Sedbergh

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

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Sedbergh
National Park:: YORKSHIRE DALES
National Grid Reference:: SD6499191794

Summary

Reasons for Designation

This commemorative cross to Queen Victoria is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Group value: it forms the centrepiece of a public park designed by Thomas Mawson * Artistic quality: it is a well designed and executed commemorative structure by regionally important designers and sculptor. * Historic interest: Queen Victoria is a highly significant national figure whose reign is commemorated by this cross

History

A memorial cross to Queen Victoria was erected as the centre point of Queen's Garden in 1902. Queen's Garden was designed and laid out by Thomas Mawson on land donated by Mrs Upton-Cottrell-Dormer of Ingmire Hall. The cross was designed by Hicks & Charlewood of Newcastle upon Tyne who have numerous listed buildings to their names including a drinking fountain in the town centre (listed Grade II). The sculptural work of the cross was executed by H T Miles whose work includes a statue of Queen Victoria housed within the Grade II* Barrow Town Hall and the memorial cross marking the grave of John Ruskin to the design of W G Collingwood (Grade II). The cross was unveiled at a formal ceremony on October 31 1902 by the Lord Bishop of Ripon, the full details of which are contained in a piece in the Sedberghian, the official magazine of Sedbergh School. The gardens containing the memorial cross were handed over to the parish council on March 26 1906.

Details

MATERIALS: sandstone

DESCRIPTION: a tall Anglo-Celtic cross standing 5m high. Slightly tapering rectangular shaft on a shaped plinth bearing the words H T MILES, ULVERSTON. The cross head has bosses with crosshatch decoration and interlace decoration to all sides. The front and rear have elaborate carving of carved interlace and strap work with a central panel of foliate decoration.

Inscription on the north face reads: "VICTORIA, QUEEN, EMPRESS/ 1837-1901/ REVERED, BELOVED, REMEMBERED"

Inscription on the south face reads: "THESE GROUNDS/ WERE LAID OUT AND/ PRESENTED TO THE/ TOWN OF SEDBERGH/ AS A LASTING MEMORIAL OF THE/ GLORIOUS REIGN OF/ QUEEN VICTORIA/ BY HER FAITHFUL/ SUBJECT/ FLORENCE ANNE/ UPTON-COTTRELL-DORMER"

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Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.