2-888-648 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Memorial to Sir John Barrow, Bart., 1850. '...the foundation-stone of the Barrow monument was laid, with great ceremony, on the Hill of Hoad, near Ulverston [in Cumbria]...The stone bears the following inscription:- ON THE 15th MAY, A.D. 1850, IN THE 14th YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY, QUEEN VICTORIA, SIR GEORGE BARROW, BART., AND JOHN BARROW, ESQ., F.R.S., DEPOSITED THIS STONE TO RECORD THE COMMEMORATION OF THE TESTIMONIAL TO THE LATE SIR JOHN BARROW, BART. ANDREW TRIMEN, ARCHITECT...The design of the Monument is by Mr. Trimen...and consists of a stone tower (a sea-mark), 100 feet in height; by 40 feet diameter at the base. It will stand upon the summit of the Hill of Hoad, which rises abruptly above the town to the height of 450 feet above the level of the sea'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.