Penshaw Monument
Sunderland, United Kingdom
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The Penshaw Monument, officially the Earl of Durham's Monument, is a Greek Revival memorial on Penshaw Hill in the City of Sunderland, North East England. Designed by John and Benjamin Green and built in 1844–1845 of local gritstone, it commemorates John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham. Modelled on the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens, it is a Doric temple with eighteen columns and no roof, and it is a Grade I listed structure owned by the National Trust.
Movement
- Built
- Type
- folly, monument, memorial
- Materials
- gritstone
- Heritage
- Grade I listed building
- Height
- 21 m
- Place
- Sunderland, United Kingdom
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