Obelisk About 3/4 Mile North of Hagley Hall
OBELISK ABOUT 3/4 MILE NORTH OF HAGLEY HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1167587
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Obelisk About 3/4 Mile North of Hagley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- OBELISK ABOUT 3/4 MILE NORTH OF HAGLEY HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1167587
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Obelisk About 3/4 Mile North of Hagley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- OBELISK ABOUT 3/4 MILE NORTH OF HAGLEY HALL
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.
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 ABOUT 3/4 MILE NORTH OF HAGLEY HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Bromsgrove (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hagley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 92101 81646
Details
SO 98 SW HAGLEY WYCHBURY HILL
2/133 Obelisk about ¾ mile north of Hagley Hall (formerly listed with item 2/134)
II
The grade shall be amended to read Grade II*
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SO 28 SW HAGLEY CP WYCHBURY HILL
2/133 Obelisk about ¾ mile north of Hagley Hall 23.4.52 1 (Formerly listed with item 2/134)
II
Obelisk. Mid-C18, for George, First Lord Lyttleton. Sandstone ashlar on ashlar-faced brick base. Square pedestal with moulded base and cornice supporting tall tapered slender shaft with moulded plinth; the upper section of the shaft is missing. One of several buildings erected in the park for George Lyttleton as part of his scheme to landscape the grounds in the new Picturesque style. The obelisk, erected on a very prominent site, has become a local landmark. [CL articles (mainly Vol 122, p 545 and 608); VCH 3 (i), p 130-131; BoE, p 178; Hagley Hall Official Guide Book).
Listing NGR: SO9210181646
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 156398
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hagley Hall Official Guide, ()
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1913), 130-1
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 178
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 122, (), 545+608
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 20 Hereford and Worcester,
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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