The Maryport Advertiser March 10, 1882 The Queen & Lord BEACONSFIELD

The Queen & Lord BEACONSFIELD

The Maryport Advertiser - March 10, 1882

THE QUEEN AND LORD BEACONSFIELD.    The monument which the Queen commissioned Mr. R. C.  BELT to prepare for the perpetuation of the memory of Lord BEACONSFIELD has just  been completed and erected in Hughenden Church. It is placed immediately above  the seat habitually occupied by the late Prime Minister. The spot was, it is  stated, selected by Her Majesty.    The centre of the memorial is occupied by a profile  portrait carved in bold relief in statuary marble placed within a quatrefoil  cartouche, which flanked by buttresses and crowned by a carved crested canopy,  in which figures an heraldic hatchment of the late Earl's arms and supported  beneath this is a tablet bearing the following dedication, written by the Queen:  - To the dear and honoured Memory of Benjamin Earl of Beaconsfield, This memorial is placed by his grateful and affectionate Sovereign and friend Victoria R. I. "Kings love him that speaketh right." February 27th, 1882     Proverbs xvi. 13    The whole of the architectural surroundings are in  strict accord with the architecture of the church itself, and are wrought in  Sicilian marble.

 

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