Title

Memorial column near Lemmington Hall, Edlingham, Northumberland, c1955-c1980

Caption

Memorial column near Lemmington Hall, Edlingham, Northumberland, c1955-c1980. A distant view of the column around 400m south of Lemmington Hall with fields and foliage in the foreground. The column was originally erected in Surrey in 1786 by Sir John Soane to commemorate the parents of James Evelyn. It was moved to Northumberland in 1928 by Sir Stephen Aitchison which entailed using a light electric railway constructed especially for the column to be moved. The column is ashlar on a squared-stone base, and has a low platform. At the base of the column is a serpent that swallows itself, and at the top of the column is an eternal flame, standing at around 15 metres in total.

Date

1955

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/English Heritage

Reference

HRM19F09_349

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

65,8Mb (5,2Mb) / 19,4in x 13,2in / 5818 x 3953 (300dpi)

Keywords

photograph landscape nature exterior outdoors tree countryside England architecture plant plants country memorial British English Northumberland commemoration column pillar pillars rustic location century architectural commemorative Britain concept twenties B&W MONOCHROME black & white black and white B W 1920s Monument 18th century 20th century Eighteenth Century rural trees English Heritage Edlingham rural life TGN outside photograph landscape Stephen Regionalism 1st Baronet Ursula Clark Clark Ursula Sir Stephen Aitchison Aitchison Lord Aitchison