Column Of Victory is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1957. Monument.
Column Of Victory
- WRENN ID
- hidden-steeple-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1957
- Type
- Monument
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BLENHEIM SP41NW 2/3 Column of Victory 27/08/57 GV I Column of Victory. Erected 1727-30 by Lord Herbert, later ninth Earl of Pembroke, after design by Nicholas Hawksmoor; statue of Marlborough by Sir Henry Cheere. Limestone ashlar. Fluted Doric column surmounted by lead statue of the Duke of Marlborough, as Caesar, and Roman eagles. Commemorative inscription on plinth written by Lord Bolingbroke. The column, which commemorates Marlborough's victories, was suggested by Vanbrugh: the designs by Hawksmoor were chiefly inspired by the pillar in Piazza Navona, Rome. The masons were Townesend and Peisley. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p473; National Monuments Record; K. Downes, Hawksmoor, 1959, pp207-10, 282; D. Green: Blenheim Palace, 1951, ppihi-2, 173-7; Blenheim Park is included in the HBMC Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade I)
Listing NGR: SP4352116997
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