Description

LITTLE BUDWORTH C.P. OULTON PARK
SJ 56 NE
3/51 Monument to John Francis
Egerton.
-
- II*
Monument. 1846 or 1847. By G G Scott and Moffat. Yellow sandstone
ashlar. Square base supporting square monument with diagonal
buttresses and octagonal turret with spire crowned with cross.
South Front: diapering to lower body with offset above and damaged
sculpted panel above showing house and classical figures. Moulded
surround with small ballflowers. Second offset above this with row of
ballflowers immediately below. Above this the diagonal buttresses
have canopied niches with figures of women in Mediaeval costume on
semi-octagonal bases supported on semi-octagonal columns with floral
capitals. To centre is two-light blank tracery with cusped lower
lights and trefoils above with quartrefoil to top all set within
cusped surround. Gable above with crockets and trefoil containing
coat of arms. Octagonal turret above with blank tracery and moulded
cornice above with gables above that and octagonal spire beyond that.
Tops of diagonal buttresses have gargoyles and crocketed pinacles.
Right and left hand returns similar save that they have blank panels
in place of sculpted panel. Rear: similar save for bronze plaque in
place of sculpted panel commemorating John Francis Egerton and
detailing the events surrounding his death at Ferozapore in April
1846. One of the more elaborate of the series of Victorian monuments
inspired by the Eleanor Crosses.

Listing NGR: SJ5903065208

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Monument to Captain John Francis Egerton at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q15979183

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5