List of National Monuments of Sierra Leone
The list of national monuments in Sierra Leone contains monuments of the African state of Sierra Leone , which on the basis of the Monuments and Relics Ordinance of June 1, 1947, the status of English "National Monument" was given. These are administered by the Monuments and Relics Commission (MRC).
Currently (as of December 2016) 21 objects are included in the list of national monuments, many of the monuments were damaged or destroyed in the course of the civil war . No monuments were declared between 1966 and 2015.
The numbers correspond to the random classification according to the MRC from June 2019.
Declarations since 1966
Source:
image | designation | location | description | construction time | Registered since |
Monument number |
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Zion Methodist Church | Wesley St, Freetown map |
Methodist church building | 1817 | October 23, 2016 | 19th |
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Madam Yoko's grave | Moyamba | Madam Yoko's grave | 3rd December 2016 | 17th |
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Bai Bureh tomb | Port Loko | Bai Bureh tomb | 2016 | 18th |
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Mani Sundu's tomb | Koidu | Grave of Mani Sundu | 19th January 2018 | 20th |
Declarations 1948–1965
image | designation | location | description | construction time | Registered since |
Monument number |
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Bunce Island * |
Sierra Leone River in the confluence of the Rokel and Port Loko Creek Map |
Island on which a slave fortress was built in 1670 by a British slave trading company | 1670 | 1948 | 11 |
De Ruyter Stein |
King Jimmy Market , Freetown Map |
Rock inscribed by Admiral Michiel de Ruyter | around 1607 | 1949 | 3 |
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Bastion of Fort Thornton |
Tower Hill , Freetown Map |
Former bastion that was integrated into newly built government buildings in 1949 | 1792-1805 | 1949 | 6th |
Remains of the earthworks and palisade at Masakpaidu | Kono District in the Chiefdom Nimmi Yema map |
Remains of the enclosure of the Masakpaidu settlement | around 1893 | 1949 | 15th |
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Stairs of the old port and guard house |
Freetown map |
1818 | 1953 | 1 |
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Gate to the old Kings Yard * |
Freetown map |
Remainder of the Kings Yard where freed slaves were temporarily housed | 1819 | 1949 | 4th |
Ruins of John Newton's house and slave barracks on Plantain Island |
Plantain Island map |
Residential house and slave barracks | between 1748 and 1754 | 1949 | 12 |
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Cleveland gravestone | District Moyamba in Kagbora Chiefdom map |
Tombstone of chiefdom founder James Cleveland | 1791 | 1950 | 16 |
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Original building of Fourah Bay College * | Ross Road, Cline Town , Freetown Map |
Historic university building | 1845-1848 | 1955 | 2
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Grave of Captain Lendy | Waiima , Chiefdom Fiama , Kono District , Eastern Province | Historic graves | 1893 | 1965 | 14th
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Martello tower | Parliament, Freetown Map |
Historic defense tower | 1805 | 1961 | 7th |
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St. John's Maroon |
Freetown map |
1820 (1808?) | 1956 | 5 |
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St. Charles' Church and remnants of the walls of the King's Yard |
Regent , at Freetown map |
1809-1816 | 1959 | 10 |
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Three city cannons |
Freetown map |
historical city cannons | 1800 | 1953 | 9 |
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Combat base and cannons at Old Wharf |
Dublin Island map |
historical battle base | around 1810 | 1956 | 13 |
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Old military shooting range | Corner of Hill Cot Rd & King Harman Rd Map |
destroyed | 1962 | 8th |
* proposed for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List .
Planned
image | designation | location | description | construction time | Registered since |
Monument number |
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Magburaka clock tower |
Magburaka card |
Clock tower as a monument | planned |
Unknown status
image | designation | location | description | construction time | Registered since |
Monument number |
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Heddle's Farm | Leicester Road, Freetown | Location of a historic house | 1820 | 1948 | ||
Victorian fire place | 2 Charlotte St card |
destroyed | around 1858 | 1961 | ||
Nomoli | Mendeland | Stone figures | around 1500 | 1949 |
literature
- Arthur Abraham: Cultural Policy in Sierra Leone. UNESCO, Paris 1978, ISBN 92-3-201601-X .
Web links
- Official website SierraLeoneHeritage.org national monuments (English)
- Documentation and Inventory of Immovable Cultural Heritage 2009 (English; PDF; 35 kB)
- Cultural Policy in Sierra Leone , Arthur Abraham, UNESCO Report 1978, ISBN 92-3-101601-6 .
- The Preservation of historical monuments: Sierra Leone , Peter W. Lewis, UNESCO Report 1979
Individual evidence
- ^ "Monuments and Relics Ordinance (1947)" , UNESCO
- ↑ Newsletter. Monuments & Relics Commission, July 2019.
- ↑ PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT DR ERNEST BAI KOROMA GCRSL PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE REPUBLIC OF SIERRA LEONE ARMED FORCES ON THE OCCASION OF STATE OPENING OF THE REUBTHIC PARLIAMENT SESSION OF THE SECONDIC PARLIAMENT SESSION SIERRA LEONE IN THE CHAMBER OF PARLIAMENT BUILDING TOWER HILL, FREETOWN ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15TH, 2016 AT 10:00 AM. Sierra Leone State House, December 15, 2016. ( Memento of February 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Zion Methodist Church proclaimed National Protected Heritage Asset. Awoko, October 25, 2016.
- ↑ Madam Yoko's Grave Proclaimed as a National Monument. Awareness Times, December 8, 2016. ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Kono Chief Sundu recognized by MRC. Awoko, January 24, 2018.
- ^ Tentative Lists Sierra Leone. Retrieved June 1, 2012, June 16, 2014.