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| Name: | The Monument, Somerby |
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| HER Number: | MLI96409 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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Summary
An ashlar column, built in 1770.
| Grid Reference: | TA 060 067 |
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| Map Sheet: | TA00NE |
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| Parish: | SOMERBY, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Full description
An ashlar monument, built in 1770. It is a doric column surmounted by an urn to commemorate 29 years of happy marriage for Edward and Ann Weston of Somerby Hall. It has a square rusticated base with a plinth and entablature from which rises a circular entasised pillar with a Doric capital, roses in the necking, a floriated frieze, blocking course, three steps and an urn with a snake, symbol of eternity, coiled about it biting its tail, and from which a flame issues. The long Latin inscription on the south face is now illegible. {1}
<1> Department of the Environment, 1985, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 4/142 (Index). SLI8774.
Monument Types
- COMMEMORATIVE MONUMENT (Post Medieval to Modern - 1770 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Index: Department of the Environment. 1985. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. 4/142. |
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