Description

HELSTON

SW6427 MONUMENT ROAD 631-1/4/196 (West side) 22/05/72 Monument to H M Grylls

GV II*

Memorial gateway giving access to bowling green on site of former castle. 1834. By George Wightwick. By public subscription to Humphry Millet Grylls. Granite ashlar with plinth, weathered buttresses, strings and other details including embattled parapet between tall crocketed pinnacles over buttresses flanking doorway; angle buttresses with gablets, all with turned finials. Rectangular plan. Gothic style. Front and rear elevations identical; central 4-centred arched doorway with sunk panels to spandrels; inscribed panel with trefoil end above; flanking bays with tall trefoil-headed niches and quatrefoils above; lower cornice enriched with Tudor roses, parapet cornice over trefoil frieze. A distinguished design, providing a visually prominent stop to Coinagehall Street. (Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840: London: 1978-: 890).

Listing NGR: SW6569927410

External Links

• Monument to H M Grylls at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17532657

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)