Survey Data
Reg No
22206719
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical
Original Use
Obelisk
In Use As
Obelisk
Date
1840 - 1850
Coordinates
192558, 134243
Date Recorded
07/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding granite memorial, erected c.1845, comprising square-plan platform of vermiculated stone blocks with cut-stone coping and supporting rectangular-plan tapering granite memorial with cut-stone plinth, cut-stone shaft. Limestone plaques to four faces, south and west inscribed. Memorial stands in enclosure having cast-iron railing, uprights set into limestone plinth blocks.
Appraisal
This unusual memorial stands in a graveyard alongside a nineteenth-century church and the ruins of a medieval church. Having the form of a cenotaph, it displays fine carving in its cut-stone work and the distinctive vermiculated base.