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The Smith Monument on Abbey Hill

A Grade II Listed Building in Tresco, Isles of Scilly

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Coordinates

Latitude: 49.9479 / 49°56'52"N

Longitude: -6.3361 / 6°20'9"W

OS Eastings: 89049

OS Northings: 14311

OS Grid: SV890143

Mapcode National: GBR BXRT.DL8

Mapcode Global: VGYBY.4K7V

Plus Code: 8CXMWMX7+4H

Entry Name: The Smith Monument on Abbey Hill

Listing Date: 12 February 1975

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1141199

English Heritage Legacy ID: 62553

ID on this website: 101141199

Location: New Grimsby, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, TR24

County: Isles of Scilly

Civil Parish: Tresco

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: Isles of Scilly

Church of England Diocese: Truro

Tagged with: Monument

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Description


TRESCO

SV8914 The Smith Monument on Abbey Hill
1358-0/7/118
12/02/75

II

Monument. 1872. Rough granite rubble obelisk about 15 feet
high, on a base about 8 feet square. It bears plaques in
memory of Augustus Smith, d.1872 who was for 39 years Lord
Proprietor of the Isles of Scilly, and Thomas Algernon Dorrien
Smith, Lord Proprietor 1872-1918: "He devoted his life
unselfishly to those Islands and added greatly to their
beauty".


Listing NGR: SV8904914311

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