Monument On Afton Down is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1994. Monument.
Monument On Afton Down
- WRENN ID
- tenth-postern-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1994
- Type
- Monument
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument on Afton Down, built around 1846, is a stone obelisk approximately 4 feet high dedicated to E.L.M. It is inscribed with a memorial message: "Erected in remembrance of a most dear and only child who was suddenly removed into eternity by a fall from the adjacent cliff on the rocks beneath 28th August 1846." Each face of the obelisk features a different biblical text, including: "Reader prepare to meet thy doom for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth," "Jesus said I am the resurrection and the life," "In the midst of life we are in death," and "He cometh forth like a flower and is cast down. He fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not."
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