Description

HELSTON

SW6427 MONUMENT ROAD
631-1/4/196 (West side)
22/05/72 Monument to H M Grylls

GV II*

Memorial gateway giving access to bowling green on site of
former castle. 1834. By George Wightwick. By public
subscription to Humphry Millet Grylls. Granite ashlar with
plinth, weathered buttresses, strings and other details
including embattled parapet between tall crocketed pinnacles
over buttresses flanking doorway; angle buttresses with
gablets, all with turned finials. Rectangular plan. Gothic
style. Front and rear elevations identical; central 4-centred
arched doorway with sunk panels to spandrels; inscribed panel
with trefoil end above; flanking bays with tall trefoil-headed
niches and quatrefoils above; lower cornice enriched with
Tudor roses, parapet cornice over trefoil frieze. A
distinguished design, providing a visually prominent stop to
Coinagehall Street.
(Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects
1600-1840: London: 1978-: 890).

Listing NGR: SW6569927410

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Monument to H M Grylls at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17532657

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