Obelisk on Small Green Approximately 50 Metres South of Church of St Cuthbert
OBELISK ON SMALL GREEN APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, BOTANIC ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379562
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Obelisk on Small Green Approximately 50 Metres South of Church of St Cuthbert
- Statutory Address:
- OBELISK ON SMALL GREEN APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, BOTANIC ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379562
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Obelisk on Small Green Approximately 50 Metres South of Church of St Cuthbert
- Statutory Address 1:
- OBELISK ON SMALL GREEN APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, BOTANIC ROAD
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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 SMALL GREEN APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, BOTANIC ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 36514 18581
Details
SOUTHPORT
SD3618NE BOTANIC ROAD, Churchtown
664-1/7/260 (North side)
15/11/72 Obelisk on small Green approx. 50m
south of Church of St Cuthbert
(Formerly Listed as:
BOTANIC ROAD, Churchtown
Obelisk on small green in front of
Hesketh Arms Hotel)
GV II
Commemorative obelisk. C18; formerly at Worden Hall, Leyland,
and removed to this site in 1950. Dressed gritstone blocks.
Square section. Pedestal approx. 2m high, with a chamfered
base, one broad band and a cavetto-moulded cornice with a worn
inscription running round the east, north and west sides:
Rebuilt in Commemor / ation of the Glorious / [illegible].
Tall obelisk on block-and-ball feet, with panelled sides and a
metal flaming sun finial.
Forms group with Church of St Cuthbert, St Cuthbert's Road
(and associated items, qv), with 2 old lamp posts (qv) at the
corners of the green, and with the Hesketh Arms (qv) facing
the green from the east.
Listing NGR: SD3651418581
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478949
- 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.
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