OBELISK MONUMENT, MIDDLE ENCLOSURE

OBELISK MONUMENT, MIDDLE ENCLOSURE, BUNHILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUND

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396525
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-2011
List Entry Name:: OBELISK MONUMENT, MIDDLE ENCLOSURE
Statutory Address:: OBELISK MONUMENT, MIDDLE ENCLOSURE, BUNHILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUND

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396525
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-2011
List Entry Name:: OBELISK MONUMENT, MIDDLE ENCLOSURE
Statutory Address 1:: OBELISK MONUMENT, MIDDLE ENCLOSURE, BUNHILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUND

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 MONUMENT, MIDDLE ENCLOSURE, BUNHILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUND

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Islington (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 32676 82255

Reasons for Designation

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Details

635-1/0/10223 BUNHILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUND 21-FEB-11 Obelisk monument, Middle enclosure

GV II Obelisk monument, late C18 or early C19

LOCATION: 532675.7, 182255.4

MATERIALS: Portland stone

DESCRIPTION: The monument takes the form of a squat obelisk with a square base, resting upon four stone balls with a rectangular panel attached on one side. Below is a square pedestal with a moulded cap and sunken side panels, one of which bears an armorial achievement (a chevron with three stags) carved in low relief. No inscription is now visible.

SOURCES: Corporation of London, A History of the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground (1902). A W Light, Bunhill Fields (London, 1915).

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The monument is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It is an impressive example of a late-Georgian funeral monument of a complex and sophisticated Classical design. * It is located within the Grade I registered Bunhill Fields Burial Ground (q.v.), and has group value with the other listed tombs in the middle enclosure.

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Legacy System number:: 508561
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.