Description
The monument is of ashlar, with a slate plate, 25 feet (7.6 m) high, in the English Baroque style. On the south side is an inscription describing the Battle of Lansdown(1643) and on the north side are two poems. On top is a griffin supporting the Grenville coat of arms. It is in poor condition, with much erosion of the carving and significant loss of the text.
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“The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul’s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.”
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