page_title: The Slopes, Buxton
hierarchical_section_title: The Slopes, Buxton
caption_attribution_description: The Crescent and The Slopes in Buxton, Derbyshire. Location of the famous spa baths of the town! War memorial - Grade II listed at The Slopes. War Memorial on the Slopes, Buxton BUXTON SK0573SE THE CRESCENT 616-1/4/44 (South side) War Memorial on The Slopes GV II War Memorial. c1920. Ashlar with bronze ornaments. Two step square base with curved front, supports rectangular base with plinth and projecting curved front bearing bronze inscription, PRO PATRIA, 1914+1918, 1939+1945. Above tall obelisk with laurel band and pyramidal cap, bears bronze panels on three sides, and at the front a bronze figure of a winged angel holding a sword brandishing a laurel wreath. Listing NGR: SK0585173472 This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building. Source: English Heritage Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence. bronze statue
context_page_description: The Slopes is a Grade-II-listed public park in Buxton, Derbyshire in England. The area was laid out by landscape architect Jeffry Wyatville in 1811 for William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, as pleasure grounds for the guests of The Crescent hotel to promenade. The design of The Terrace was modified further by Sir Joseph Paxton in 1859.
  The grassed bank of The Slopes lies between the Town Hall and Higher Buxton at the top and St Ann's Well and the Pump Room at the bottom, facing The Crescent hotel, the Victorian spa baths and the Old Hall Hotel. The terraced area is intersected with numerous footpaths. The Terrace had previously been a bare hillside known as St Ann's Cliff.
  The Grade-II-listed war memorial from c.1920 commemorates the soldiers from Buxton who perished in the two World Wars. An obelisk on a stepped platform is fronted by a bronze statue of a winged angel holding a sword and a laurel wreath.
  Twelve Grade-II*-listed 18th-century decorated limestone urns are set on gritstone plinths along walled footpaths and stone steps.
  Buxton Town Hall looks down from the top of The Slopes.
context_section_description: The Slopes (formerly known as The Terrace) is a Grade-II-listed public park in Buxton, Derbyshire in England. The area was laid out by landscape architect Jeffry Wyatville in 1811 for William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, as pleasure grounds for the guests of The Crescent hotel to promenade. The design of The Terrace was modified further by Sir Joseph Paxton in 1859.
  The grassed bank of The Slopes lies between the Town Hall and Higher Buxton at the top and St Ann's Well and the Pump Room (into which the Buxton spring mineral waters were piped) at the bottom, facing The Crescent hotel, the Victorian spa baths and the Old Hall Hotel. The terraced area is intersected with numerous footpaths. The Terrace had previously been a bare hillside known as St Ann's Cliff.
  The Grade-II-listed war memorial from c.1920 commemorates the soldiers from Buxton who perished in the two World Wars. An obelisk on a stepped platform is fronted by a bronze statue of a winged angel holding a sword and a laurel wreath.
  Twelve Grade-II*-listed 18th-century decorated limestone urns (originally from Lord Burlington's estate at Londesborough Hall in Yorkshire) are set on gritstone plinths along walled footpaths and stone steps.
  Buxton Town Hall looks down from the top of The Slopes. It was designed by William Pollard in a French Renaissance style and built between 1887 and 1889.
  The Slopes were restored in 1994 with grants from the European Commission and English Heritage.
caption: War memorial on The Slopes
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