Obelisk, at Haileybury and Imperial Service College 40 Metres North of South Lodge
OBELISK, AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE 40 METRES NORTH OF SOUTH LODGE, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063706
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Obelisk, at Haileybury and Imperial Service College 40 Metres North of South Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- OBELISK, AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE 40 METRES NORTH OF SOUTH LODGE, LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1063706
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Obelisk, at Haileybury and Imperial Service College 40 Metres North of South Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- OBELISK, AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE 40 METRES NORTH OF SOUTH LODGE, LONDON ROAD
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- OBELISK, AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE 40 METRES NORTH OF SOUTH LODGE, LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hertford Heath
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3554610631
Details
TL 3510
14/16
24.1.67
GREAT AMWELL
LONDON ROAD
(east side)
Hertford Heath
Obelisk, at Haileybury and Imperial Service College 40 metres north of South Lodge
GV
II
South African (Boer) War Memorial Obelisk, 1903 by Reginald
Blomfield. Portland stone with applied bronze decorations.
Raised on 6 circular stone steps surrounded by 12 moulded stone
bollards with bronze collars and chains between. A tall stone
obelisk with ball finial raised on a high carved stone base in
the Baroque manner with concave curved sides wreathed corner
scrolls with helmeted heads, scrolled and wreathed cartouches
with winged putti and bellied bronze shields with raised
inscriptions. Bronze battle honours on labels on each face of
obelisk, applied inscription and 8 ball supports with swags at
its junction with the Baroque base, which itself has 4 ribboned
wreaths in bronze around its base. In memory of Haileyburians
who died in the South African war 1899 - 1902. Set on main axis
of entrance front. (Blunt (1966) 19,28).
Listing NGR: TL3554610631
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 30 January 2018.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355853
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Blunt, W J W, The Haileybury Buildings, (1966), 19+28
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 12 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/32062
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 January 2018 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/92177
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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