Listed Building record TQ 54 SE 85 - LADY CATHERINE STEWART MONUMENT

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1812 to 1812

Location

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

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
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


English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM