Obelisk Approximately 150 Metres West of Welcombe Bank Farm
OBELISK APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES WEST OF WELCOMBE BANK FARM, INGON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382134
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Obelisk Approximately 150 Metres West of Welcombe Bank Farm
- Statutory Address:
- OBELISK APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES WEST OF WELCOMBE BANK FARM, INGON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382134
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Obelisk Approximately 150 Metres West of Welcombe Bank Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- OBELISK APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES WEST OF WELCOMBE BANK FARM, INGON LANE
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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 APPROXIMATELY 150 METRES WEST OF WELCOMBE BANK FARM, INGON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Snitterfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 20940 57072
Details
HAMPTON LUCY
SP25NW INGON LANE, Welcombe
1457-1/9/75 (West side (off))
02/08/72 Obelisk approx. 150m west of
Welcombe Bank Farm
(Formerly Listed as:
WELCOMBE
Obelisk at Welcombe Bank)
GV II
Obelisk. Erected in 1876 to the memory of Mark Philips of
Welcombe. Limestone ashlar. 3 square steps to battered
pedestal supporting obelisk with pronounced taper. Pedestal
has Philips Arms to east; inscription to Mark Philips to west;
north and south faces have inscriptions to Robert Philips,
1760-1844, and Robert Needham Philips, 1815-90, Mark Philips's
father and brother.
Mark Philips, 1800-73, was an important politician, one of the
first pair of MPs for Manchester, 1832.
An important landmark in the Welcombe Hills and the
countryside between Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth:
1966-: 467).
Listing NGR: SP2094057072
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482500
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 467
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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