The Scottish Martyrs Memorial, Nunhead Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. Memorial. 2 related planning applications.
The Scottish Martyrs Memorial, Nunhead Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- cold-flint-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Country
- England
- Type
- Memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Scottish Martyrs Memorial is an obelisk located in Nunhead Cemetery, constructed in 1851. It is made of granite and stands 10 meters high on a square base, featuring inscriptions on each side. The memorial is enclosed by low twisted iron rails supported by squat corner posts. It was funded by public donations raised by Radical MP Joseph Hume after a public meeting in 1837, to honor five men—Thomas Muir, Thomas Palmer, Joseph Gerrald, William Skirving, and Maurice Margarot—who were sentenced to transportation for sedition between 1793 and 1794. A similar monument was erected on Calton Hill in Edinburgh in 1837.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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Nearby listed buildings
- West Lodge, Nunhead Cemetery
- Monument to Maria Proom, Nunhead Cemetery
- Entrance Gate Piers, Gates and Railings to Nunhead Cemetery
- East Lodge, Nunhead Cemetery
- Monument to Thomas Humphreys, Nunhead Cemetery
- Monument to Henry Daniel, Nunhead Cemetery
- Monument to Sophia Kimpton, Nunhead Cemetery
- Chapel of Nunhead Cemetery
- Monument to Oppenheim and Schroeter, Nunhead Cemetery
- Stearns Mausoleum, Nunhead Cemetery