COLSTON OBELISK IN GREAT BREACH WOOD AT NGR ST 5021 3169

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345075
Date first listed:: 13-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: COLSTON OBELISK IN GREAT BREACH WOOD AT NGR ST 5021 3169
Statutory Address:: COLSTON OBELISK IN GREAT BREACH WOOD AT NGR ST 5021 3169

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345075
Date first listed:: 13-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: COLSTON OBELISK IN GREAT BREACH WOOD AT NGR ST 5021 3169
Statutory Address 1:: COLSTON OBELISK IN GREAT BREACH WOOD AT NGR ST 5021 3169

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: COLSTON OBELISK IN GREAT BREACH WOOD AT NGR ST 5021 3169

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Butleigh
National Grid Reference:: ST 50210 31690

Details

BUTLEIGH CP - ST53SW

9/1 Colston Obelisk in Great Breach Wood at NGR ST 5021 3169 -

- II

Memorial to a shooting accident. Dated 1852. Polished marble, on a squared rubble plinth. Classic obelisk with a tapering shaft. Base inscribed:- "Here Fell Mortally Wounded By The Accidental Discharge Of A Gun Whilst Shooting With Some Friends October 30th, 1852, Hungerford Colston*.

Listing NGR: ST5021031690

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Legacy System number:: 267715
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.