ANONYMOUS C18 OBELISK IN ST GEORGE'S GARDENS

ANONYMOUS C18 OBELISK IN ST GEORGE'S GARDENS, HANDEL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378727
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: ANONYMOUS C18 OBELISK IN ST GEORGE'S GARDENS
Statutory Address:: ANONYMOUS C18 OBELISK IN ST GEORGE'S GARDENS, HANDEL STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1378727
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: ANONYMOUS C18 OBELISK IN ST GEORGE'S GARDENS
Statutory Address 1:: ANONYMOUS C18 OBELISK IN ST GEORGE'S GARDENS, HANDEL STREET

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:: ANONYMOUS C18 OBELISK IN ST GEORGE'S GARDENS, HANDEL STREET

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:: TQ3044782445

Details

TQ3082SW 798-1/90/1872

CAMDEN HANDEL STREET Anonymous C18 Obelisk in St George's Gardens

(Formerly Listed as: HANDEL STREET Walls, lodge, cottage and monuments in St George's Gardens)

14/05/74

GV II

Anonymous obelisk. C18. Portland stone. Tall obelisk on tapering sarcophagus on base. Sarcophagus with gadrooned middle course supporting weathered armorial cartouches. Its patron is unidentified. Located on south side of gardens, in former burial ground of St George the Martyr. One of the largest and most imposing outdoor monuments in any London churchyard. (Survey of London: Vol. XXIV, King's Cross Neighbourhood, St Pancras IV: London: 1952-: PLATE 66).

Listing NGR: TQ3044782445

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Legacy System number:: 478061
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Survey of London' in Survey of London - Kings Cross neighbourhood The Parish of St Pancras Part 4: Volume 24 , (1951)

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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.