Wallace Memorial
Wallace Memorial
Wallace Memorial
Wallace Memorial
Wallace Memorial
Wallace Memorial
Wallace Memorial
Wallace Memorial
Wallace Memorial
Wallace Memorial
Wallace Memorial

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A tall square-plan tower with a steep crocketed spire topped with a poppy head finial, and the front gable bearing a date and coat of arms, niches on each façade, one bearing a bust of the subject above an inscribed tablet, and on a three-stepped octagonal base.
Title

Wallace Memorial

Date

1892

Medium

stone & marble

Measurements

H 1220 x W (?) x D (?) cm

Accession number

BT27_AL_S035

Work type

Monument

Owner

Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council

Custodian

Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council

Work status

extant

Listing status

B1 (Northern Ireland)

Listing date

08/10/81

Access

time restrictions apply

Inscription description

engraved on a marble plaque attached to the front of the monument: TO PERPETUATE / THE MEMORY OF / ONE WHOSE DELIGHT WAS TO DO GOOD / AND IN GRATEFUL RECOLLECTION / OF HIS GENEROUS INTEREST / IN THE PROSPERITY OF THIS TOWN / OF WHICH IT POSSESSES SO MANY / PROOFS. / THIS MONUMENT / IS ERECTED TO / SIR RICHARD WALLACE, BART, K.G.I. / SOMETIME M.P. / FOR THE BOROUGH OF LISBURN, / BY THE INHABITANTS / OF THE TOWN AND NEIGHBOURHOOD / OBIIT JUL. XX. M.D.C.C.C.X.C.; and above the bust, carved in relief: 1892

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Located at

Queens Road, Lisburn

BT27 4XD

Located in the centre of Lisburn Castle Gardens.