Description

LYTHAM ST ANNES

SD32NW SOUTH PROMENADE, St Annes
621-1/2/110 (South West side)
Lifeboat monument approx. 100m SE
of St Annes Pier

GV II

Monument to crew of St Anne's lifeboat. c.1890, by W.B.Rhind
of Edinburgh. Commemorates 13 crew of lifeboat, drowned 1886.
Sandstone. Ashlar plinth approx. 2 metres square and 2 metres
high, the base tapered; tall rock pedestal approx. 3 metres
high surmounted by over-life-size statue of lifeboatman. A
lettered panel on the south side of the pedestal records that
the monument was erected by public subscription, listing the
names of the crew who lost their lives attempting to rescue
the crew of the German barque "Mexico" wrecked off Southport
on 9 December 1886; and the east side of the base is inscribed
"W.B.RHIND Sc EDINBUGH". (See also the "Laura Janet" monument
in the churchyard of the church of St Cuthbert, Church Road,
Lytham.)

Listing NGR: SD3192428563

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Lifeboat Monument, St Annes at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q15979040

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)