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| clock tower, Penrith | ||
| Musgrave Monument | ||
| Street:- | Market Square | |
| locality:- | Penrith | |
| civil parish:- | Penrith (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | clock tower | |
| locality type:- | memorial | |
| coordinates:- | NY51573013 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5130 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY53 | |
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 BLO16.jpg (taken 12.1.2006)  BWL33.jpg Inscription:- "IN SYMPATHY WITH THE GREAT SORROW / WHICH BEFELL THE FAMILY AT EDEN HALL / IN THE DEATH OF THEIR ELDEST SON / PHILIP MUSGRAVE, ESQUIRE / MAY 16 1859, / AT MADRID ... / ... ERECTED / MAY 1861 / ..." (taken 18.5.2012) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 58 4) placename:- Musgrave 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. "[Musgrave Monument]" |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CLOCK TOWER / / MARKET SQUARE / PENRITH / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 72897 / NY5157230131" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "1861. Grey stone ashlar. Square base with corner buttresses and a trefoiled arcade on each face. Centre shaft with corner pilasters, pointed arch framing a clock face on each side, gabled, with a pyramidal pointed roof ending in an iron finial. Erected to commemorate Philip Musgrove of Edenhall)." |
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| hearsay:- |
Erected as a memorial to Philip Musgrave of Edenhall, died age 25, 1861. |
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