Listed Building: LADY CATHERINE STEWART MONUMENT (1084772)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1764, 1, 1
Date assigned 10 December 1986
Date last amended

Description

SOUTHBOROUGH BIRCHWOOD (OFF HARDINGE AVENUE) 1/1 Lady Catherine Stewart - Monument - II Marble monument erected in 1812 in memory of Lady Catherine Stewart, sister of Lord Darnley, wife of Brigadier-General Stewart. He was later Marquis of Londonderry, in succession to Viscount Castlereagh, the Prime Minister, who was his half-brother. Diagonally-fluted cylindrical column with turned base mounted on a square plinth. Plain band around middle on which are carved the various rhymed inscriptions. Column surmounted by flattish urn on a square base. Enclosed by surround of heavy railings, the individual poles being square in section with forged arrow-head points. Corner uprights of larger section. Surround gated. See Colbran's 'Guide to Tunbridge Wells', 1840. Listing NGR: TQ5719543226

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  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 5719 4322 (point)
Map sheet TQ54SE
Civil Parish SOUTHBOROUGH, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 5:21PM