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Obelisk on Small Green Approximately 50 Metres South of Church of St Cuthbert

A Grade II Listed Building in Southport, Sefton

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Coordinates

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

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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

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