Russian Memorial In The Churchyard Of St John Sub Castro is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1985. Memorial.
Russian Memorial In The Churchyard Of St John Sub Castro
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-hall-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1985
- Type
- Memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Russian memorial in the churchyard of St John sub Castro is a memorial built around 1877 in a neo-Gothic style by John Strong, a mason from Lewes. It features a stone structure on an octagonal stone base with a moulded round plinth. The memorial has an octagonal drum adorned with marble shafts that support cusped pointed arches and the ribs of a pointed octagonal spire. Above, there is an octagonal tabernacle feature that supports a cross.
The memorial is inscribed with the names of Russian soldiers who died while imprisoned in Lewes during the Crimean War. The east panel reads, "Sacred to the Memory of the Russian Soldiers who died Prisoners of War in Lewes in the years 1854, 1855, 1856." The west panel states, "RAISED by the order of His Majesty the Emperor of RUSSIA Alexander II 1877. THE MEMORIAL was restored by the Embassy of the USSR 1957 at the instance of the Friends of Lewes Society."
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