Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Pillar / Column
- District
- Aylesbury Vale
- Town
- Stowe
- County
- Buckinghamshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Austrian Succession (1740-1748)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: C1748
Attended by: - Unveiled
Date: C1756 - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 61682
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Current location
In the gardens of Stowe.
The Elysian Fields
Stowe
Aylesbury Vale
Buckinghamshire
England
OS Grid Ref: SP 676374
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Gardens of Stowe.
Grecian Valley
Stowe
Aylesbury Vale
Buckinghamshire
England
OS Grid Ref: SP 676 374
Denomination: Undefined
- Gardens of Stowe.
- Description
- Doric column designed in 1748 and moved to the Elysian Fields during the 1750s. The column is surmounted by a statue of Herioc Poetry, one of the Nine Muses which originally stood on the parterre in front of Stowe House.
- Inscription
- (unknown)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Austrian Succession (1740-1748)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Austrian Succession (1740-1748)
- Components
- Column
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Figure
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined
- Column
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Funds provided by Thomas Grenville's uncle, Lord Cobham. - Sponsorship
- Private
- Reference
- Buildings of England series by Various 2ed. 1994, pp676, 680. Buckinghamshire.
- Descriptions of Lord Cobham's Gardens at Stowe by G B Clarke p 154.
- Published:Oxford University Press 2004
- Drawings of Stowe by John Claud Nattes by C N Gowing and G B Clarke Plate 28 Published:Buckinghamshire County Museum 1983
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