Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659810

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)