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Description: | Two main stages and a spire. Spire was originally on top of a tall octagonal column, 40 metres (132 feet) high, which has been removed. Lower stage has gabled angle buttress with off-sets. Pointed arch aedicules on squat colonettes framing arms and an inscription. Steep crocketed gable over dwarf biforium with cusped arcade and crocketed gablets. Heraldic finials at corners removed c. 1980. Upper stage octagonal. Crocketed gables with pierced tympana supported on colonnettes framing pointed arches which in turn frame cusped pointed arches of which those on the diagonal sides are blind. Octagonal spire with open lantern stage of which each pointed opening is surmounted by a gable. Iron railings with ornamental finials. Additional Information: Francis Egerton first Earl of Ellesmere (1800-1857), statesman and writer, was born in London the younger son of the second Marquis of Stafford and Elizabeth, countess of Sutherland. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church Oxford before entering the Staffordshire yeomanry as a lieutenant in 1819. Elected MP for Bletchingley in Surrey in February 1822, he associated himself with the liberal conservatism of Canning, and spoke in favour of free trade and the endowment of Catholic clergy. He was afterwards MP for Sutherlandshire (1826-1835), and South Lancashire (1835-46). Egerton held office as lord of the treasury (April-September 1827), under-secretary of state for the colonies (January-May 1828), chief secretary to the Marquis of Anglesey, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1828-1830) and secretary of war (July-November 1830). He was made a privy councillor for both England and Ireland (1828). He also pursued a literary career which included a translation of Goethe's Faust (1823), 25 other works of translation and military history and a play 'Catherine of Cleves' which was performed at Covent Garden. In June 1846 he was created Viscount Brackley and Earl of Ellesmere and was made a Knight of the Garter in 1855. In addition to his literary activities, he was involved in other scholarly projects including terms as the first president of the Camden Society, president of the British Association at Manchester (1842), of the Royal Asiatic Society (1849), and the Royal Geographical Society (1854-55). He died in London on 18 February 1857 and is buried at Worsley.(1) | Subjects: | Tower | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Architect: Driver and Weber | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=7550... | Go to resource |
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