Ceremony of Laying the Foundation-Stone of a Memorial to the late Marquess of Londonderry, on Scrabo Hill, County Down, Ireland, 1857. The stone was laid by Sir Robert Bateson, '...in presence of a large number of the tenantry and others resident on the county Down estates of the late Marquis of large glass jar, hermetically sealed, was handed to Sir Robert. It contained a parchment scroll, inscribed: "In memory of Charles William Vane, third Marquis of tower is erected by his tenantry and friends"...The architect having declared the stone properly
Ceremony of Laying the Foundation-Stone of a Memorial to the late Marquess of Londonderry, on Scrabo Hill, County Down, Ireland, 1857. The stone was laid by Sir Robert Bateson, '...in presence of a large number of the tenantry and others resident on the county Down estates of the late Marquis of large glass jar, hermetically sealed, was handed to Sir Robert. It contained a parchment scroll, inscribed: "In memory of Charles William Vane, third Marquis of tower is erected by his tenantry and friends"...The architect having declared the stone properly laid, the union- jack was hoisted on the summit of the hill. On this signal a "Royal salute " was fired from a battery of monument, a tower in the style of a Scottish chateau, will be 135 feet high, and is to be built of the rough rubble-stone (basalt) found on the top of the '. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.
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