Monument To First Lord Armstrong At South West Of Detached Graveyard is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1987. Monument.

Monument To First Lord Armstrong At South West Of Detached Graveyard

WRENN ID: blind-truss-kestrel
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Northumberland
Country: England
Date first listed: 25 August 1987
Type: Monument
Source: Historic England listing

Description

ROTHBURY CHURCH STREET NU 0501 (West side) 25/272 Monument to 1st Lord Armstrong at south-west of detached graveyard II

Graveyard monument, 1900. Cut stone. Paved rectangle enclosed by dwarf wall with moulded coping. At west end two-stepped base to plinth of Celtic cross with plant scrolls and central rose boss to head. On plinth inscriptions to William George, 1st Lord Armstrong of Cragside, d.1900, 'HIS SCIENTIFIC ATTAINMENTS GAINED HIM A WORLD WIDE CELEBRITY, AND HIS GREAT PHILANTHROPY THE GRATITUDE OF THE POOR'. Margaret Lady Armstrong, d.1893, text from Ecclesiastes and the Armstrong arms.

Listing NGR: NU0572501575

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