The Adelaide Cross On The Green In Front Of The Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Monument.
The Adelaide Cross On The Green In Front Of The Manor House
- WRENN ID
- scattered-keep-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- Monument
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
LITTLE GADDESDEN LITTLE GADDESDEN SP 91 SE (East side)
1/197 The Adelaide Cross - on The Green in front of the Manor House
GV II
Monumental cross. Circa 1917 for Lord Brownlow. Limestone monument raised on a grassed mound approached by a flight of 6 stone steps with low chamfered side walls. A tall tapering chamfered cross on a chamfered square plinth on an octagonal inscribed step on an octagonal base in the form of a stone seat with recessed chamfered plinth, about 7m high overall. The shaft of the cross formed from 2 stones. Inscribed 'IN REMEMBRANCE OF ADELAIDE WIFE OF ADELBERT 3RD EARL BROWNLOW BORN 1844 MARRIED 1868 DIED 1917 DAUGHTER OF HENRY 18TH EARL OF SHREWSBURY & TALBOT' and at base 'MERCY AND PEACE HAVE KISSED EACH OTHER'. An important landscape feature seen along a vista from the porch of Ashridge House, q.v. (Senar(1983)97).
Listing NGR: SP9966812869
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