20 minute neighbourhoods............2
Tennis in Alnwick............................4
Bondgate Tower: Risk reduction....6
News in brief....................................7
Civic Society Awards.......................7
Annual General Meeting................8
Our voice in planning.....................9
Planning Matters............................10
Quiz: X18 Bus Stops.......................11
About Alnwick Civic Society.......12
Who's Who?....................................12
Diary dates......................................12
Detail view of the Percy Tenantry Column in Alnwick showing two lions at the base of the monument. It was erected in 1816 by the grateful tenants of the Duke of Northumberland in recognition for reduced rents during the depression.
Historic England listing: Percy Tenantry Column
Keys to the past: Percy Tenantry Column
This Column which is built on an eminence rising somewhat suddenly and beautifully laid out with shrubbery is about 100 feet high surmounted by a Lion passant the Percy crest and at the base are four Lions couchant. It contains the following inscription-To Hugh Duke of Northumberland This Column is erected by a grateful and united tenantry AD.MDCCCXVI
Picturesque England - Alnwick Castle - the seat of the Duke of Northumberland.
Tenantry Column by Barbara Woodhouse
Tenantry Column Postcard.
The Tenantry Column is a monument to the south of Alnwick town centre, in Northumberland, England. It was erected in 1816 by the tenants of Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland in thanks for his reduction of their rents during the post-Napoleonic depression. It is a Doric column standing 83 feet (25 m) tall and surmounted by a lion en passant, the symbol of the Percy family. Four more lions stand on a platform at the base of the column. A muster roll of the Percy Tenantry Volunteers was sealed into the foundation. The structure was granted protection as a listed building in 1952 and since 1977 has been listed in the highest category, grade I.