Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
9205
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/01/1992
Date of Amendment
29/04/1993
Name of Property
Monument to Sir George Cornewall Lewis
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
New Radnor
Town
Locality
Easting
321381
Northing
260735
Street Side
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.
Description
Broad Class
Commemorative
Period
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.
Interior
Reason for designation
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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