Latitude: 51.6491 / 51°38'56"N
Longitude: -2.8975 / 2°53'50"W
OS Eastings: 338000
OS Northings: 194859
OS Grid: ST380948
Mapcode National: GBR J9.7CW0
Mapcode Global: VH7B1.QTK5
Plus Code: 9C3VJ4X2+JX
Entry Name: Monument to Eleanor Isabella Franklin at east end of Church of St. Andrew
Listing Date: 18 November 1980
Last Amended: 6 December 2005
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 2690
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
ID on this website: 300002690
Location: In a group of Victorian monuments at the east end of the church.
County: Monmouthshire
Town: Newport
Community: Llanhennock (Llanhenwg)
Community: Llangybi
Locality: Tredunnock
Traditional County: Monmouthshire
Tagged with: Monument
Probably erected soon after the recorded death in 1860.
Red sandstone ashlar with iron railings. Monument in the form of a medieval altar. Rectangular Gothic tomb with 6 x 2 cusped arch arcade supporting a moulded slab top carrying a recumbent cross. This tomb is set on a stone base with a small railed surround. The arcade contains several inscriptions, one is inscribed: 'Eleanor Isabella... only child (of) Sir John Franklin, first discoverer of the North West Passage... from a deadly malady from which she had rescued a suffering child, died... 1860.'
Included for historical interest and as a fine Victorian Gothic table tomb having strong group value with the nearby Church of St. Andrew.
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