Description

BLENHEIM
SP41NW
2/3 Column of Victory
27/08/57
GV I
Column of Victory. Erected 1727-30 by Lord Herbert, later ninth Earl of
Pembroke, after design by Nicholas Hawksmoor; statue of Marlborough by Sir Henry
Cheere. Limestone ashlar. Fluted Doric column surmounted by lead statue of the
Duke of Marlborough, as Caesar, and Roman eagles. Commemorative inscription on
plinth written by Lord Bolingbroke. The column, which commemorates Marlborough's
victories, was suggested by Vanbrugh: the designs by Hawksmoor were chiefly
inspired by the pillar in Piazza Navona, Rome. The masons were Townesend and
Peisley.
(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p473; National Monuments Record; K. Downes,
Hawksmoor, 1959, pp207-10, 282; D. Green: Blenheim Palace, 1951, ppihi-2, 173-7;
Blenheim Park is included in the HBMC Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade I)

Listing NGR: SP4352116997

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26649460

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