Listed building outline
Percy Tenantry Column
Field | Value | Fact links |
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Reference | 1041405 | Facts |
Prefix | listed-building-outline | Facts |
Name | Percy Tenantry Column | Facts |
Dataset | Listed building outline | no fact link |
Organisation | Northumberland County Council | no fact link |
Start date | 1952-02-20 | no fact link |
End date | no fact link | |
Entry date | 1977-08-25 | Facts |
Typology | geography | no fact link |
Geometry |
MULTIPOLYGON (((-1.699133 55.411007, -1.69914 55.411019, -1.699203 55.41102, -1.699203 55.41101, -1.699377 55.410908, -1.699396 55.410909, -1.699405 55.410874, -1.699386 55.410873, -1.699216 55.410777, -1.699216 55.410765, -1.699143 55.410765, -1.699143 55.410777, -1.69897 55.410878, -1.698955 55.410878, -1.698957 55.410915, -1.698972 55.410914, -1.699133 55.411007)))
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Facts |
Point |
POINT (-1.699176 55.410892)
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Facts |
Notes | SOUTH ROAD 1. 5330 (North-East Side) Percy Tenantry Column (formerly listed under Bondgate Without) NU 1913 7/28 20.2.52. I 2. 'The Farmers' Folly' begun 1816 to designs by David Stephenson of Newcastle. Completed by the 3rd Duke. Greek Doric column of 83 ft with shallow fluting and foliate cap to balcony platform supporting a drum on which is the Percy lion passant (facing south). The column stands on a square pedestal guarded by 4 lions facing inwards on black marble plinths. The whole stands on a circular granite platform 90 ft in circumference. Panels on 3 sides of pedestal, stair entrance on 4th (to north). Set back with Esperance en dieu on each side. West panel inscribed To Hugh Duke of Northunberland KG this column is erected, dedicated and inscribed by a grateful and united tenantry Anno Domini MDCCCXVI. [The Duke had greatly increased his farmers' rents and then reduced them following the agricultural depression after Waterloo]. Formerly surrounded by railings. , | Facts |
Listed building | 1041405 | Facts |
Available Code Snippets:
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