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
The Adelaide Cross is a monumental cross located on The Green in front of the Manor House in Little Gaddesden. It was constructed around 1917 for Lord Brownlow. The cross is made of limestone and is raised on a grassed mound, which is accessible by a flight of six stone steps with low chamfered side walls. The structure features a tall, tapering chamfered cross set on a chamfered square plinth, which is placed on an octagonal inscribed step and an octagonal base that resembles a stone seat with a recessed chamfered plinth. The overall height of the cross is about 7 meters. The shaft of the cross is formed from two stones and is inscribed with the words: "IN REMEMBRANCE OF ADELAIDE WIFE OF ADELBERT 3RD EARL BROWNLOW BORN 1844 MARRIED 1868 DIED 1917 DAUGHTER OF HENRY 18TH EARL OF SHREWSBURY & TALBOT." At the base, it reads: "MERCY AND PEACE HAVE KISSED EACH OTHER." This cross is an important landscape feature, visible along a vista from the porch of Ashridge House.
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