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| Lonsdale Monument, Carlisle | ||
| Lonsdale Monument | ||
| Street:- | Crescent (The) | |
| civil parish:- | Carlisle (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | statue | |
| coordinates:- | NY40265566 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4055 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY45 | |
| references:- | Listed Buildings 2010 |
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 BYT19.jpg "M. L. WATSON / SCULPTOR" (taken 9.7.2013) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 23 7) placename:- Lonsdale Monument |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "STATUE OF EARL OF LONSDALE / / THE CRESCENT / CARLISLE / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 386880 / NY4026555654" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Statue. 1846 for the subscribers, signed M.L.WATSON, SCULPTOR. Calciferous sandstone base, plinth and shaft; white marble figure. Rusticated square base and plinth; shaft inscribed at front in six lines WILLIAM EARL OF LONSDALE, LORD LIEUTENANT OF CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND FROM 1802 TO 1844. Larger-than-life figure dressed in robe and costume of the Order of the Garter. A competition for the statue was held in 1845. Its original location was in English Street between the Courthouses, where the foundation stone was laid in 1846, but because of a dispute it was not erected until a year later, (see Carlisle Journal 1845, 6 and 7). A photograph of the statue being moved on 25 July 1929 is in Cumberland News, 19 September 1986. It was placed in its present location in the Courthouse Gardens in 1930. For an illustration of the statue and details of the sculptor, see Marshall Hall (1979). (Carlisle Journal: 8 March 1845; Carlisle Journal: 24 October 1846; Carlisle Journal: 13 August 1847; Cumberland News: 19 September 1986; Marshall Hall: The Artists of Cumbria: 1979-: P.93)." |
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 BYT18.jpg (taken 9.7.2013) |
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