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© Mr David Cross
IoE Number:
359404
Location:
HUSKISSON MONUMENT IN SAINT JAMES' CEMETERY, ST JAME'S ROAD
LIVERPOOL, LIVERPOOL, MERSEYSIDE
Photographer:
Mr David Cross
Date Photographed:
12 February 2002
Date listed:
28 June 1952
Date of last amendment:
28 June 1952
Grade
II
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SJ 3589 SW ST. JAMES' ROAD
L1
59/1050 Huskisson
Monument in
28.6.52. Saint James'
Cemetery.
G.V. II
Monument. 1836. J. Foster. Stone. Circular structure.
Greek Revival. Base has channelled rustication and entrance
with architrave and C20 gate. Upper part has attached
Corinthian colonnade with high square openings on sill band
with iron grilles. Entablature with antefixae. Shallow
stone dome with lights and cross. Statue, removed from
interior, of William Huskisson by John Gibson. Huskisson
M.P. for Liverpool and President of the Board of Trade, was
run over and killed in 1830 at the opening of the Liverpool
and Manchester Railway. The monument is an adaptation of the
Choragic Monument of Lysicrates at Athens.