Admiral Lord Collingwood


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Reference WMO/281648

Address:

Collingwood Field

Tynemouth

NE30 1JE

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Outside - hilltop/field/countryside
Description: Figure sculpture
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Revolutionary/Napoleonic (1792-1815)
About the memorial: Statue on top of a tall square column set on steps, At the four corners of the base are cannon. A dedication tablet is set in a sunken panel in the plinth and there is an explanatory, modern, notice board adjacent. 200 metres north of the Tyne river entrance, in a very prominent location on the headland
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THIS MONUMENT/WAS ERECTED IN 1845 BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION TO THE MEMORY OF/ADMIRAL LORD COLLINGWOOD/WHO IN THE "ROYAL SOVEREIGN" ON THE 21ST OCTOBER 1805, LED THE BRITISH FLEET/INTO ACTION AT TRAFALGAR AND MAINTAINED THE SEA FIGHT FOR UPWARDS OF AN HOUR/BEFORE THE OTHER SHIPS WERE WITHIN GUN SHOT, WHICH CAUSED NELSON TO EXCLAIM/"SEE HPW THAT NOBLE FELLOW COLLINGWOOD TAKES HIS SHIP INTO ACTION"/_______/HE WAS BORN AT NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE AND DIED IN THE SERVICE/OF HIS COUNTRY, ON BOARD THE "VILLE DE PARIS" ON 7TH MARCH 1810/AND WAS BURIED IN ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL/____/THE FOUR GUNS UPON THIS MONUMENT BELONGED TO HIS SHIP THE "ROYAL SOVEREIGN"

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