Listed Building: Obelisk at junction of Thrapston Road and Irthlingborough Road (1040631)

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Grade II
NHLE UID 1040631
Date assigned 23 September 1950
Date last amended

Description

Obelisk. c.1789. Erected for Sir English Dolben by Sumpter of Irthlingborough. Squared coursed limestone. Short obelisk on square plinth with plain cornice. Plain limestone tablet to each face. Probably erected as a direction pillar and to record the return to sanity of George III. (Finedon Otherwse Thingdon by J.H.L. Bailey, p.44).

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Location

Grid reference Centred SP 9214 7215 (5m by 5m)
Civil Parish FINEDON, North Northamptonshire (formerly Wellingborough District)

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Jul 19 2022 4:25PM

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