OBELISK TO BARON SOUTHAMPTON IN SOUTH WEST CORNER OF ST JAMES GARDENS

OBELISK TO BARON SOUTHAMPTON IN SOUTH WEST CORNER OF ST JAMES GARDENS, HAMPSTEAD 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:: 1378716
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: OBELISK TO BARON SOUTHAMPTON IN SOUTH WEST CORNER OF ST JAMES GARDENS
Statutory Address:: OBELISK TO BARON SOUTHAMPTON IN SOUTH WEST CORNER OF ST JAMES GARDENS, HAMPSTEAD ROAD

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

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

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

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:: 2004-09-04
Reference:: IOE01/13026/11
Rights:: © Mr Matthew Perrement. 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:: 1378716
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: OBELISK TO BARON SOUTHAMPTON IN SOUTH WEST CORNER OF ST JAMES GARDENS
Statutory Address 1:: OBELISK TO BARON SOUTHAMPTON IN SOUTH WEST CORNER OF ST JAMES GARDENS, HAMPSTEAD ROAD

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 TO BARON SOUTHAMPTON IN SOUTH WEST CORNER OF ST JAMES GARDENS, HAMPSTEAD ROAD

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Camden (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 29271 82671

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2982NW HAMPSTEAD ROAD 798-1/88/1743 Obelisk to Baron Southampton in SW corner of St James' Gardens

GV II

Obelisk. Thought to be to Charles Fitzroy, first Baron Southampton, and his wife Anne, nee Warren (d.1797 and 1810). Stone. Rectangular plinth with tapering shaft, upper part broken. Armorial relief of 2 birds flanking a shield, above which is a coronet. Monument resembles the listed Way tomb (d.1804) at Acton by John Bacon junior, who may have done this too. The Southampton family had extensive landholdings in the south-west part of the present borough of Camden.

Listing NGR: TQ2927182671

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 478050
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.