This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
ST51SE BARWICK CP TWO TOWER LANE (South side)
5/18 The Fish Tower (previously listed as obelisk in Park North of Barwick House) 19.4.61
GV II
Folly. Circa 1775. Local stone rubble with Ham stone ashlar at top. Base about 2 metres square and 2 metres high, with arched opening on North side; above a hollow circular column about 12 metres high with open slits up the South side and an ashlar crown with ogee arched panels, the whole reminisicent of a factory chimney. The North boundary marker, one of four of the Barwick Park estate, probably erected by John Newman. (Barbara Jones, Follies and Grottoes, Constable 1974)
Listing NGR: ST5606914850
This is part of the Series: IOE01/0882 IOE Records taken by Brian Haigh; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mr Brian Haigh. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Haigh, Brian
Rights Holder: Haigh, Brian
Ashlar, Ham Hill Stone, Rubble, Stone, Georgian Folly, Gardens Parks And Urban Spaces, Garden Building
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