Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
2690
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/11/1980
Date of Amendment
06/12/2005
Name of Property
Monument to Eleanor Isabella Franklin at east end of Church of St. Andrew
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Llangybi
Town
Newport
Locality
Tredunnock
Easting
338000
Northing
194859
Street Side
Location
In a group of Victorian monuments at the east end of the church.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Probably erected soon after the recorded death in 1860.
Exterior
Red sandstone ashlar with iron railings. Monument in the form of a medieval altar. Rectangular Gothic tomb with 6 x 2 cusped arch arcade supporting a moulded slab top carrying a recumbent cross. This tomb is set on a stone base with a small railed surround. The arcade contains several inscriptions, one is inscribed: 'Eleanor Isabella... only child (of) Sir John Franklin, first discoverer of the North West Passage... from a deadly malady from which she had rescued a suffering child, died... 1860.'
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for historical interest and as a fine Victorian Gothic table tomb having strong group value with the nearby Church of St. Andrew.
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