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Latitude: 52.2392 / 52°14'21"N
Longitude: -3.1527 / 3°9'9"W
OS Eastings: 321381
OS Northings: 260735
OS Grid: SO213607
Mapcode National: GBR F0.10KX
Mapcode Global: VH69K.9ZMB
Plus Code: 9C4R6RQW+MW
Entry Name: Monument to Sir George Cornewall Lewis
Listing Date: 30 January 1992
Last Amended: 29 April 1993
Grade: II*
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 9205
Building Class: Commemorative
Also known as: Monument to Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Broad Street
Lewis Monument
Lewis Memorial
George Cornewall Lewis Monument
George Cornewall Lewis Memorial
ID on this website: 300009205
Location: Striking monument on a large scale situated at the Y-junction between Broad Street and Water Street at SE end of the village; reached N off A44.
County: Powys
Community: New Radnor (Maesyfed)
Community: New Radnor
Traditional County: Radnorshire
Tagged with: Monument
Erected in 1864; designed by John Gibbs of Oxford (designer of the Banbury Cross) with figure sculpture by W Forsyth. Partly restored in 1977. Commemorates Sir George Cornewall Lewis (1806-63), the local politician who lived at Harpton Court; he was MP first for Herefordshire and then for Radnor, rising immediately to become Chancellor of the Exchequer under Palmerston and was afterwards Home Secretary and Secretary of State for War. Inscription reads: "To the memory of her [Radnorshire's] most distinguished son ...."
21m high; extravagant Gothic style in a Ruskinian manner and in the style of Eleanor Crosses. The octagonal stem rises from a stepped platform and is enriched all around by a profusion of niches, gabled to the lower stage. In these are statues of Fortitude, Prudence etc. Weathered marble colonnettes. Band of glazed tiles below and openwork spire to the top.
Grade II* as an imposing and exceptionally grand Welsh example of a Victorian memorial to a major figure in mid-C19 British politics.
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