OBELISK AT JUNCTION OF THRAPSTON ROAD AND IRTHLINGBOROUGH ROAD

OBELISK AT JUNCTION OF THRAPSTON ROAD AND IRTHLINGBOROUGH ROAD, IRTHLINGBOROUGH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1040631
Date first listed:: 23-Sep-1950
List Entry Name:: OBELISK AT JUNCTION OF THRAPSTON ROAD AND IRTHLINGBOROUGH ROAD
Statutory Address:: OBELISK AT JUNCTION OF THRAPSTON ROAD AND IRTHLINGBOROUGH ROAD, IRTHLINGBOROUGH ROAD

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Date:: 2003-02-04
Reference:: IOE01/09913/23
Rights:: © Mr Roger Ashley. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1040631
Date first listed:: 23-Sep-1950
List Entry Name:: OBELISK AT JUNCTION OF THRAPSTON ROAD AND IRTHLINGBOROUGH ROAD
Statutory Address 1:: OBELISK AT JUNCTION OF THRAPSTON ROAD AND IRTHLINGBOROUGH ROAD, IRTHLINGBOROUGH ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: OBELISK AT JUNCTION OF THRAPSTON ROAD AND IRTHLINGBOROUGH ROAD, IRTHLINGBOROUGH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Finedon
National Grid Reference:: SP 92146 72153

Details

FINEDON IRTHLINGBOROUGH ROAD SP97SW (West side) 2/32 Obelisk at junction of 23/09/50 Thrapston Road and Irthlingborough Road

- II

Obelisk, c.1789. Erected for Sir English Dolbn by Sumpter of Irthlingborough. Squared coursed limestone. Short obelisk on square plinth with plain cornice. Plain limestone tablet to ach face. Probably erected as a direction pillar and to record the return to sanity of George III. (Finedon Otherwse Thingdon by J.H.L. Bailey, p.44).

Listing NGR: SP9214672153

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Legacy System number:: 233683
Legacy System:: LBS

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Bailey, J L H , Finedon Otherwise Thingdon44

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.