Lifeboat Monument Opposite Scarisbrick Avenue is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1999. Monument.
Lifeboat Monument Opposite Scarisbrick Avenue
- WRENN ID
- pitched-lime-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1999
- Type
- Monument
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SOUTHPORT
SD3317SW PROMENADE 664-1/11/157 (West side) Lifeboat Monument opposite Scarisbrick Avenue
GV II
Monumental obelisk. Commemorates the loss of the lifeboat "Eliza Fernley" with 14 crew in 1886; the commissioning of the lifeboat "Edith and Annie" in 1888; the achievements of 2 other former lifeboats; and the public holiday celebrating the majority of the Corporation of this borough and the jubilee of Queen Victoria. Erected 28 June 1888. Grey granite. Base of 3 square steps, plinth with corner colonettes and bronze plaques, obelisk with chamfered corners. The plaque on the south side is blank but the others are lettered, that on the north side recording the loss of the "Eliza Fernley" while attempting the rescue of the crew of the German barque "Mexico" during a storm on 9 December 1886 (also commemorated by Eliza Fernley monument in cemetery, Duke Street, qv).
Listing NGR: SD3336017362
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