Monument to John Collingwood
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Location
| Street: | Lewes Road |
| Town: | Brighton |
| Parish: | Brighton |
| Council: | Brighton & Hove City Council |
| County: | East Sussex |
| Postcode: | BN2 |
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| Object setting: | Garden |
| and in: | Religious |
| Access is: | Public |
| Location note: | Extra-Mural Cemetery, 'Robertson's Special' area, north side, to the west of the Ray Mausoleum |
| In the AZ book: | East Sussex |
| Page: | 132 |
| Grid reference: | D5 |
| The A-Z books used are A-Z East Sussex and A-Z West Sussex (Editions 1A 2005). Geographers' A-Z Map Company Ltd. Sevenoaks. | |
| OS Reference: | TQ3205 |
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Makers
| Name : | W. Burnet(t) |
| Role: | Architect |
| Company/Group : | W. Field, 13 Parliament Street, London |
| Company/Group : | Rooke |
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General Information
| Commissioned by: | Collingwood family |
| Construction period: | c1861 |
| Installation date: | 1861 |
| Work is: | Extant |
| Owner custodian: | Collingwood family |
| Object listing: | Grade II: of special interest warranting every effort to preserve them |
| Building listing: | II |
| Description: | The monument faces south and is made from Portland stone with polished granite and scagliola. The monument is a Gothic tabernacle in style. The base is square with two offsets and two recessed quatrefoils to each side inset with scagliola shields. There is an octagonal canopy with pointed arches to the cardinal points having an inner order to the outside and the inside. There are lower arches to the diagonal faces, and lower arches also flanking the taller ones so as to carry the lower part of the canopy out to the corners of the base where they have squat columns of polished granite shared with the arch on the return. Cross-gables sit above, the spandrels filled with quatrefoil decoration, flanked by pinnacles and gargoyles. The motif of the canopy is roughly and more simply repeated in a stone lantern at the apex. |
| Signatures: | Bottom right hand corner of monument:
W. FIELD 13 PARLIAMENT ST LONDON Bottom right hand corner of base: ROOKE. Bottom left hand corner of monument: BURNET ARD |
| Inscription: | IN MEMORY OF JOHN COLLINGWOOD BORN FEB 21 1796. DIED JAN 12 1861 |
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Classification
| Categories: | Free Standing, Commemorative, Architectural, Funerary |
| Object type1: | Building |
| Object subtype1: | Mausoleum |
| Subject type1: | Non-figurative |
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Object Parts
| Part 1: | Monument |
| Material: | Portland stone and red granite |
| Height (cm): | 550 |
| Width (cm): | 220 |
| Depth (cm): | 220 |
| Part 2: | Base |
| Material: | Portland stone |
| Height (cm): | 50 |
| Width (cm): | 275 |
| Depth (cm): | 290 |
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Object Condition
| Overall condition: | Good |
| Risk assessment: | No known risk |
| Condition 1 of type: | Surface |
| Condition 1: | Biological growth |
| More details: | Biological growth on all sides. |
| Condition 2 of type: | Structural |
| Condition 1: | Broken or missing parts |
| Condition 2: | Cracks, splits, breaks, holes |
| More details: | Granite columns on the middle arch of each side badly cracked and corroded. Top of the lantern broken off and placed underneath the canopy. West face: Granite columns at either side of the middle arch both missing. Finial at the south-west corner missing. |
| Condition 3 of type: | Vandalism |
| Condition 1: | Surface damage |
| More details: | Scratched graffiti to the inner stonework underneath the canopy. |
| Date of on-site inspection: | 01/05/2008 |
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History
| History: | The Extra-Mural Cemetery covers land formerly the open arable field of Scabe's Castle, a late-eighteenth-century farm with buildings in Hartington Road. These were demolished in the 1900s when Hartington Place and Hartington Terrace were developed. The Extra-Mural cemetery is the oldest of the three cemeteries on the land. It was originally a private burial ground, laid out on 28 acres in 1850 by the Brighton Extra-Mural Company, 6 acres being the gift of the Marquess of Bristol. The entrance was a castellated gateway with a round tower in Lewes Road, and there were two mortuary chapels designed by A.H.Wilds of which only the Anglican chapel remains.
The cemetery was a favourite resort in the nineteenth century and even had a guide book published, but in 1956 the now redundant cemetery was purchased by the corporation and restored as an interesting and picturesque garden of remembrance which contains many impressive Victorian tombs, including those of several important figures in Brighton's history. In the driveway is the borough mortuary which opened in August 1962 and has between 600 and 700 admissions a year. (Encyclopaedia of Brighton by Tim Carder). The cemetery was consecrated on 14 November 1857 by the then Bishop of Chichester, Dr. A.T. Gilbert The Woodvale Cemetery was opened in 1857. The Woodvale crematorium and chapels are located in this cemetery. The burial ground is Grade II listed and until 1902 was known as the Brighton 'Parochial' cemetery. (Brighton and Hove City Council) |
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References
| Source 1 : | |
| Title: | 'Brighton Cemeteries' |
| Type: | Book |
| Author: | Dale, Antony. |
| Edition: | 1995 Reprint |
| Page: | 10-11 |
| Publisher: | Brighton Borough Council. Brighton. |
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| Title: | 'Encyclopaedia OF Brighton' |
| Type: | Book |
| Author: | Carder, Timothy |
| Publisher: | East Sussex County Libraries. Lewes. |
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Photographs
Author: Anthony McIntosh Copyright: Creative Commons |  Author: Anthony McIntosh Copyright: Creative Commons |
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