Description

In the entry for

ST 67 NW STOKE GIFFORD STOKE PARK

4/18 Monument to a race
horse, 100 metres
North East of Dower
GV House
II

the address shall be amended to read STOKE PARK
Monument to Duke of
Beaufort, c100 metres
North East of Dower
House
II

and the description shall be amended to read

Monument to 4th Duke of Beaufort, d1756; the monument in situ by 1764;
designer Thomas Wright. Limestone ashlar. Rectangular plinth with diagonal
'buttresses' carrying four rusticated 'rocks' which in turn support a
rectangular sarcophagus with diagonal 'buttresses'; plinth has moulded offset
base course and broad capping. The sarcophagus has a 3-part architrave
carrying a frieze with a series of triglyphs, in which the glyphs are raised
rather than incised, and a deep cavetto cornice. The frieze has a carved
legend reading: FRATERNI DIGNUS AMORIS (Worthy of Brotherly Love). The
monument, recently (1987) repaired and re-erected by the Avon Gardens Trust,
was for long thought to commemorate a race horse. (Saving the Wizard's
Landscape: Country Life; 14-4-88. Stewart Harding and David Lambert).

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ST 67 NW STOKE GIFFORD STOKE PARK

4/18 Monument to a racehorse, 100 metres
north east of Dower House
G.V.
II

Monument. Early C19. Ashlar. A buttressed, solid table with moulded plinth
and slab; 4 freestanding rock faced blocks on the slab support, a sarcophagus of
similar shape which is decorated as a partial entablature with moulded architrave,
triglyphs in the frieze and a cavetto cornice, the whole surmounted by rock-faced
stones. Fading legend on frieze reads FRATERNI ---NVS A-ORIS. Commemorates a
winner of the St. Leger. (D. Verey, Buildings of England : Gloucestershire, The
Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970).

Listing NGR: ST6212877368

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26599352

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