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Memorial details

Memorial type
Composite
District
Carmarthen
Town
Carmarthen
County
Dyfed
Country
Wales
Commemoration
Waterloo Campaign (1815)
Maker
MR EDWARD HODGES BAILY RA (Sculptor)
JOHN NASH (Architect)
DANIEL MAINWARING (OF CARMARTHEN) (Builder)
Ceremony
  • Unveiled
    Date: August 1828
    Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
38162

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Current location

Pictan Terrace
Carmarthen
Carmarthen
Dyfed
SA31 3BU
Wales

OS Grid Ref: SN 40271 19951
Denomination: Undefined

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Description
GREEK DORIC COLUMN ON A SQUARE BASE. STAIRCASE LED TO THE TOP OF THE COLUMN, WERE THERE WAS A SQUARE GALLERY WITH SMALL CANNONS AT THE CORNERS. STATUE OF GENERAL PICTON ON TOP OF A PILLAR RISING FROM THE COLUMN. WHOLE COLUMN RESTED ON SQUARE PEDESTAL. ALTO-RELIEVO REPRESENTATIONS OF HIS ASSULT ON BADAJOS, AND DEATH AT WATERLOO (FALLING INTO THE ARMS OF A SOLDIER OF THE SCOTS GRAYS) WITH THE NAMES OF THE BATTLES IN WHICH HE FOUGHT, AND TROPHIES OF WAR ON EACH CORNER OF THE PEDESTAL.
Inscription
SOUTH SIDE: SIR THOMAS PICTON / KNIGHT GRAND CROSS OF THE MILITARY ORDER OF THE BATH, / OF THE PORTUGUESE ORDER OF THE TOWER AND SWORD, AND OF OTHER FOREIGN ORDERS, / LIEUTENANT-GENERAL IN THE BRITISH ARMY, AND MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT / FOR THE BOROUGH OF PEMBROKE; / BORN AT POYSTON, IN PEMBROKESHIRE, IN AUGUST, 1758; / DIED AT WATERLOO ON THE 18TH OF JUNE, 1815, / GLOROUSLY FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY AND THE LIBERTIES OF EUROPE. / HAVING HONOURABLY FULFILLED, ON BEHALF OF THE PUBLIC VARIOUS DUTIES IN / VARIOUS CLIMATES, / AND HAVING ACHIEVED THE HIGHEST MILITARY RENOWN / IN THE SPANISH PENINSULA, / HE THRICE RECEIVED THE UNANIMOUS THANKS OF PARLIAMENT, / AND A MONUMENT, ERECTED BY THE BRITISH NATION IN ST. PAUL'S / CATHEDRAL, / COMMEMORATES HIS DEATH AND SERVICES. / HIS GRATEFUL COUNTRYMEN, TO PERPETUATE PAST AND INCITE TO / FUTURE EXERTION / HAVE RAISED THIS COLUMN UNDER THE AUSPICES OF HIS MAJESTY / KING GEORGE THE FOURTH, / TO THE MEMORY OF A HERO AND A WELSHMAN, / THE PLAN AND DESIGN OF THIS MONUMENT WAS GIVEN BY OUR / COUNTRYMAN, JOHN NASH, ESQ., F.R.S., ARCHITECT TO THE KING. / THE ORNAMENTS WERE EXECUTED BY E H. BAILEY, ESQ., R.A., / AND THE WHOLE WAS ERECTED BY MR DANIEL MAINWARING, / OF THE TOWN OF CARMARTHEN, / IN THE YEARS 1826 AND 1827. / NORTH SIDE: WELSH TRANSLATION OF THE ABOVE
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Picton, Thomas
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Commemorations
  • Waterloo Campaign (1815)
    Total names on memorial: 1
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 1
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: rank, surname, date of death, place of death, forename, place of birth, manner of death, date of birth, additional, decorations
    Order of information: Undefined
Components
  • Column
    Measurements: height 75 FT
    Materials: Stone
  • Figure
    Measurements: height 9 FT 6 IN
    Materials: Bronze
Condition
History
THE MONUMENT HAD DETERIORATED BY ABOUT 1840 AND WAS REPLACED BY A NEW MONUMENT (NIWM 38162)
Costs

Site: £3000

Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Reference
  • CARMARTHEN AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD by SPURRELL W. 53-56 Source: Image Library EXTRACT WITH FILE

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