Obelisk on Weatherbury Castle
OBELISK ON WEATHERBURY CASTLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305028
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Obelisk on Weatherbury Castle
- Statutory Address:
- OBELISK ON WEATHERBURY CASTLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305028
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Obelisk on Weatherbury Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- OBELISK ON WEATHERBURY CASTLE
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 ON WEATHERBURY CASTLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Milborne St. Andrew
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 80696 96269
Details
MILBORNE SAINT ANDREW SY 89 NW WEATHERBURY CASTLE
6/75A Obelisk on Weatherbury Castle
II
Obelisk. Erected 1761 by Edmund Morton Pleydell. Brick structure with ashlar dressings. Rectangular plinth with stone quoins and moulded capping. Tapering square shaft with splayed stone cap with bowl finial. Stone on plinth inscribed EMP 1761. Sited in the centre of Weatherby Castle, a scheduled Ancient Monument - M91, but apparently not covered by the scheduling - (HBMC). RCHM Monument 2. (Dorset. Vol.III)
Listing NGR: SY8069696269
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103491
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970)
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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