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Monument to Sir George Cornewall Lewis

A Grade II* Listed Building in New Radnor, Powys

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.2392 / 52°14'21"N

Longitude: -3.1527 / 3°9'9"W

OS Eastings: 321381

OS Northings: 260735

OS Grid: SO213607

Mapcode National: GBR F0.10KX

Mapcode Global: VH69K.9ZMB

Plus Code: 9C4R6RQW+MW

Entry Name: Monument to Sir George Cornewall Lewis

Listing Date: 30 January 1992

Last Amended: 29 April 1993

Grade: II*

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 9205

Building Class: Commemorative

Also known as: Monument to Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Broad Street
Lewis Monument
Lewis Memorial
George Cornewall Lewis Monument
George Cornewall Lewis Memorial

ID on this website: 300009205

Location: Striking monument on a large scale situated at the Y-junction between Broad Street and Water Street at SE end of the village; reached N off A44.

County: Powys

Community: New Radnor (Maesyfed)

Community: New Radnor

Traditional County: Radnorshire

Tagged with: Monument

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History

Erected in 1864; designed by John Gibbs of Oxford (designer of the Banbury Cross) with figure sculpture by W Forsyth. Partly restored in 1977. Commemorates Sir George Cornewall Lewis (1806-63), the local politician who lived at Harpton Court; he was MP first for Herefordshire and then for Radnor, rising immediately to become Chancellor of the Exchequer under Palmerston and was afterwards Home Secretary and Secretary of State for War. Inscription reads: "To the memory of her [Radnorshire's] most distinguished son ...."

Exterior

21m high; extravagant Gothic style in a Ruskinian manner and in the style of Eleanor Crosses. The octagonal stem rises from a stepped platform and is enriched all around by a profusion of niches, gabled to the lower stage. In these are statues of Fortitude, Prudence etc. Weathered marble colonnettes. Band of glazed tiles below and openwork spire to the top.

Reasons for Listing

Grade II* as an imposing and exceptionally grand Welsh example of a Victorian memorial to a major figure in mid-C19 British politics.

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