OBELISK AT NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE SO 7523

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1266786
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: OBELISK AT NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE SO 7523
Statutory Address:: OBELISK AT NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE SO 7523

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1266786
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: OBELISK AT NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE SO 7523
Statutory Address 1:: OBELISK AT NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE SO 7523

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 NATIONAL GRID REFERENCE SO 7523

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

District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Eastnor
National Grid Reference:: SO 75232 37827

Details

SO 73 NE, 5/35

EASTNOR CP, EASTNOR PARK

Obelisk at NGR SO 7523 3783

II*

Obelisk. Erected in 1812, probably to the designs of Sir R Smirke, for 2nd Lord Somers. Ashlar. Square panelled base on a tooled plinth; stepped top over a plain band. Tapering shaft with pyramidal top. Inscribed panels on each side of the base; on the north side to the Honourable Edward Cocks who fell at Burgos, Spain in 1812 and in whose memory the obelisk was erected; on the east side to Lord Chancellor Somers, died 1806; on the south side to Ensign James Cocks, died 1758.

Listing NGR: SO7523237827

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Legacy System number:: 152460
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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 20 Hereford and Worcester,

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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.