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Latitude: 53.6599 / 53°39'35"N
Longitude: -2.9622 / 2°57'43"W
OS Eastings: 336514
OS Northings: 418581
OS Grid: SD365185
Mapcode National: GBR 7VR3.HS
Mapcode Global: WH862.G8PM
Plus Code: 9C5VM25Q+W4
Entry Name: Obelisk on Small Green Approximately 50 Metres South of Church of St Cuthbert
Listing Date: 15 November 1972
Last Amended: 29 July 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1379562
English Heritage Legacy ID: 478949
ID on this website: 101379562
Location: Churchtown, Sefton, Merseyside, PR9
County: Sefton
Electoral Ward/Division: Meols
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Southport
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside
Church of England Parish: North Meols St Cuthbert
Church of England Diocese: Liverpool
Tagged with: Obelisk
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
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