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[17] [16] Two marches started from two symbolic locations – the People's History Museum and the Pankhurst Centre – ending up at St Peter's Square, which was attended by 6,000 people including 1,000 local schoolchildren. [16] In July 2018, the Portland stone Pankhurst Meeting Circle was unveiled, designed to encircle the bronze statue. [18]
The Cenotaph, in Whitehall, London, is made from Portland stone. Portland stone is a limestone geological formation (formally named the Portland Stone Formation [1]) dating to the Tithonian age of the Late Jurassic that is quarried on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England. [1] The quarries are cut in beds of white-grey limestone separated by ...
Water came from the nearby Culver Well, and the chert for the stone artefacts came from exposures in the cliffs. The edge of the sea was about 300–400 metres further out than it is presently. [ 5 ] In November 1999, Archaeopress published the book Culverwell Mesolithic Habitation Site: Excavation Report and Research Studies , written by ...
The statue depicts Lady Godiva on her naked ride through the city to protest her husband’s oppressive taxes.The plinth is inscribed with passages from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem Godiva along with a dedication from William Bassett-Green to Lady Godiva and the people of Coventry.
Made from Portland stone, from the Isle of Portland in Dorset, the foundation stone was laid by the Prince of Wales on 12 June 1923 and it was opened by Prince Arthur of Connaught on 4 July 1925 to a crowd of 30,000. [4] Construction had cost £60,000 and was funded through public donations.
Images of England was a stand-alone project funded jointly by English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund.The aim of the project was to photograph every listed building and object (some 370,000) in England and to make the images available online to create, what was at the time, one of the largest free-to-view picture libraries of buildings in the world.
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Bronze sculpture of St George and the dragon on a Portland stone pedestal with granite steps & stone seating Grade II: Q26637887 [13] More images: Newcastle & District War memorial Eldon Square: 1923: Charles Leonard Hartwell: Cackett and Burns Pedestal with bronze sculpture of St George and the dragon Grade II* Q26409308 [4] [14] [15] More images