Robert Rodgers Obelisk at Toxteth Park Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. Funerary monument.
Robert Rodgers Obelisk at Toxteth Park Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- solitary-tower-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Wavertree MP: Paula Barker (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Funerary monument
- Address
- Robert Rodgers Obelisk at Toxteth Park Cemetery, Smithdown Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 376 889
- Coordinates
- 53.39387, -2.93873
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Robert Rodgers Obelisk at Toxteth Park Cemetery is a funerary monument built in 1868 to honor Robert Rodgers, a merchant. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar and features an eclectic architectural style. The monument has a square base and a panelled plinth, leading to a square pedestal adorned with corner pilasters beneath a cornice. Each side of the pedestal has cusped pointed arched panels, three of which are inscribed. Above this, there is an enriched plinth that supports a square tabernacle, which also has cusped pointed arched panels beneath enriched gables. The monument is topped with a short square spire that has a crocket finial.
Local climate
Robert Rodgers Obelisk at Toxteth Park Cemetery sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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