OBELISK AT JUNCTION WITH CRICKET GREEN

OBELISK AT JUNCTION WITH CRICKET GREEN (FORMERLY WITHIN THE GROUNDS OF THE CANONS), MADEIRA ROAD

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1193483
Date first listed:: 07-May-1954
List Entry Name:: OBELISK AT JUNCTION WITH CRICKET GREEN
Statutory Address:: OBELISK AT JUNCTION WITH CRICKET GREEN (FORMERLY WITHIN THE GROUNDS OF THE CANONS), MADEIRA ROAD

User submitted image — Uploaded by Beth Harries This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 1999-08-19
Reference:: IOE01/02201/26
Rights:: © Mr Christopher Strevens. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1193483
Date first listed:: 07-May-1954
List Entry Name:: OBELISK AT JUNCTION WITH CRICKET GREEN
Statutory Address 1:: OBELISK AT JUNCTION WITH CRICKET GREEN (FORMERLY WITHIN THE GROUNDS OF THE CANONS), MADEIRA ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: OBELISK AT JUNCTION WITH MADEIRA ROAD, CRICKET GREEN

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: OBELISK AT JUNCTION WITH CRICKET GREEN (FORMERLY WITHIN THE GROUNDS OF THE CANONS), MADEIRA ROAD
Statutory Address:: OBELISK AT JUNCTION WITH MADEIRA ROAD, CRICKET GREEN

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Merton (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ2777968287

Details

LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON

TQ 2768 12/95 7.5.54 MADEIRA ROAD, Mitcham (north side) Obelisk at junction with Cricket Green (formerly within the grounds of The Canons)

GV II

Monument. 1822. Rendered. Obelisk. Inset Portland stone tablet inscribed: 'In grateful recollection of the goodness of God through whose favours water has been provided for this neighbourhood/God opened the rock and the waters gushed out, they ran in dry places like a river. Psalm CV v 41/He turneth dry ground into water springs. Psalm CVII V 35 / Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. Psalm CL v 6 / A fountain shall water the valley. Joel III v 18'. Erected to commemorate relief of a serious drought.

Listing NGR: TQ2777968287

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 205113
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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