Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Monument to Sir George Cornewall Lewis
New Radnor, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 30 January 1992
- Community
- New Radnor
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.23917, -3.15276
- Cadw reference
- 9205
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
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.
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.
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.
Nearby in the register
- The Old RectoryDomesticunder 1 mi
- The GroveDomesticunder 1 mi
- The LaurelsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Yew Tree CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.