OBELISK AT THE CENTRE OF ST GEORGE'S CIRCUS

OBELISK AT THE CENTRE OF ST GEORGE'S CIRCUS, ST GEORGE'S CIRCUS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1385642
Date first listed:: 02-Mar-1950
List Entry Name:: OBELISK AT THE CENTRE OF ST GEORGE'S CIRCUS
Statutory Address:: OBELISK AT THE CENTRE OF ST GEORGE'S CIRCUS, ST GEORGE'S CIRCUS

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Date:: 2001-02-18
Reference:: IOE01/03012/31
Rights:: © Mr David March. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1385642
Date first listed:: 02-Mar-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Jun-2000
List Entry Name:: OBELISK AT THE CENTRE OF ST GEORGE'S CIRCUS
Statutory Address 1:: OBELISK AT THE CENTRE OF ST GEORGE'S CIRCUS, ST GEORGE'S CIRCUS

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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Location

Statutory Address:: OBELISK AT THE CENTRE OF ST GEORGE'S CIRCUS, ST GEORGE'S CIRCUS

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Southwark (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 31651 79453

Details

SOUTHWARK

TQ3179 ST GEORGE'S CIRCUS 636-1/4/464 02/03/1950 Obelisk at the centre of St George's Circus

II*

Obelisk. 1771. Robert Mylne. Stone. Removed from St George's Circus in 1905.Inscribed as follows: north face: ERECTED IN XI YEAR OF THE REIGN OF KING GEORGE THE THIRD. MDCCLXXI. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE BRASS CROSBY ESQUIRE, LORD MAYOR. South face: ONE MILE, CCCL FEET FROM FLEET STREET. Arms of the City of London below. East face: ONE MILE FROM PALACE YARD, WESTMINSTER HALL. West face: ONE MILE, XXXX FEET FROM LONDON BRIDGE. HISTORY. this obelisk was erected in 1771 in the centre of St George's Circus as part of the grand planning scheme designed by Mylne for Blackfriars Bridge Road. It provided the focal point(and signpost) for the radiating roads leading to various parts of the city from the entrance from the south. In c1897 it was removed to make way for a Victoria Diamond Jubilee clock-tower and was re-erected in the Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park on Lambeth Road where it was included in the List in 1950. In 1998 it was re-erected in its original position. The obelisk forms a significant group with the Duke of Clarence Public House no 32 London Road (qv), Nos 123-131 London Road (qv, Nos 113-119 Borough Road (qv and the former Presbyterian Chapel (qv) and St George the Martyr Library (qv), also Borough Road.

Listing NGR: TQ3165179453

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Legacy System number:: 471046
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.