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

FRESHWATER

SZ38NE A 3055 (OFF) 1354-0/5/168 Monument on Afton Down

II

Monument c.1846. Stone obelisk about 4 feet high to E.L.M. Inscribed: "Erected in remembrance of a most dear and only child who was suddently removed into eternity by a fall from the adjacent cliff on the rocks beneath 28th August 1846". Each face bears a biblical text variously:- "Reader prepare to meet they 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".

Listing NGR: SZ3526185555

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