Detail View: SHIMMER: Endcliffe Park Commemoration Stone
|
Title:
|
Endcliffe Park Commemoration Stone
|
|
Creation Date:
|
1887
|
|
Image Date:
|
2002
|
|
Period:
|
19th century
|
|
Location:
|
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
|
|
Country:
|
ENGLAND, UK
|
|
Material:
|
sandstone
|
|
Display Creator:
|
not known
|
|
Image ID:
|
12-0296
|
|
Description:
|
General view: Location: Endcliffe Park. At the end of the unmade road into the park from the junction of Rustlings Road and Ecclesall Road, S10. Description: A pile of sandstone boulders arranged inside a circle of cast iron railing. On one face of the upper boulder is carved a Royal Standard, the shaft has a wyvern curled about it. From this a banner leads to the crossed sheaves of arrows from Sheffield's coat of arms. An inscription gives details of the Park's inception. Inscription: "THE / ADJOINING / LAND, TO THE / EXTENT OF NINE / ACRES, WAS PURCHASED / BY SUBSCRIPTION AND PRESENTED / TO THE CORPORATION OF SHEFFIELD / FOR THE PURPOSE OF A / PUBLIC RECREATION GROUND / IN COMMEMORATION OF THE JUBILEE OF / HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA / 1887" Commission: no details
|
|
Rights:
|
© Sheffield Hallam University
|
|
Permissions:
|
For educational use only. This image may be used in print or digital materials provided that full acknowledgment is given, expressed as follows: " © < insert details from the 'Rights' field >. Photographed by < insert details from the 'Photographed by' field >."
|
|
Photographed by:
|
Dave Ball
|
|
Creator:
|
not known
|
|
Creator Role:
|
Calligrapher.
|
|
Subject Heading:
|
Memorials -- England -- Sheffield
|
|
Subject Heading:
|
Calligraphy
|
|
Subject Heading:
|
Parks -- England -- Sheffield
|