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| Braystones Tower, Braystones | ||
| Braystones Tower | ||
| locality:- | Braystones | |
| civil parish:- | Lowside Quarter (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | folly (?) | |
| locality type:- | tower | |
| coordinates:- | NY00840598 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY0005 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY00 | |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Braystones Tower |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "BRAYSTONES TOWER / / / LOWSIDE QUARTER / COPELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 351971 / NY0084205988" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Memorial tower. Erected 1897 to commemorate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee; became a First World War memorial in addtion, 1920. Snecked sandstone rubble with roughly dressed quoins and tooled dressings. Tower (formerly floored, now gutted) 3 stages with battlemented parapet (slightly corbelled) and corner turret. Doorway and windows (one to each floor to each elevation) under dropped labels. Original commemorative tablet records the names of local worthies present at its unveiling (June 1897); another tablet records the names of those men of Braystone who served in the Great War. Braystone Tower is a prominent landmark from both the countryside around and the sea." |
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| notes:- |
it was supposed this stood on a motte, but it now thought to be a natural hillock |
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| Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS::
ISBN 1 873124 23 6 |
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