Description

MANSFIELD

SK55NW NOTTINGHAM ROAD
924-1/3/87 (West side (off))
Wildman Memorial 60 metres
north-east of chapel at Mansfield
Cemetery

GV II

Memorial to Colonel Thomas and Lady Louisa Wildman, of
Newstead Abbey. Dated 1859. Gothic Revival style. Ashlar with
granite dressings and brass tablets with enamelled
inscriptions. Rectangular base with moulded plinth and
chamfered top, with an inscription on the long sides. Large
canopy carried on arcades of pink granite columns, with
moulded cusped arches. Steep pitched hipped stone slab roof,
with moulded ridge and cross-gabled finial surmounted by a
cross. On each side, a steeply gabled lucarne with a cusped
blind recess. At each corner, an octagonal shaft, formerly
topped with a seated lion carrying a banner. Under the canopy,
a chamfered slab with inscribed brass tablets on the long
sides.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Williamson E:
Nottinghamshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-: 205).

Listing NGR: SK5416258986

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26509908

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