COLUMN OF VICTORY
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368002
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1957
- Statutory Address:
- COLUMN OF VICTORY
Map
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- COLUMN OF VICTORY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Blenheim
- National Grid Reference:
- SP4352116997
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252985
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Downes, K, Hawksmoor, (1969)
Green, D, Blenheim Palace, (1951), 161-2
Green, D, Blenheim Palace, (1951), 173-7
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
