Eleanora and William Gillespie Obelisk at Toxteth Park Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. Funerary monument.

Eleanora and William Gillespie Obelisk at Toxteth Park Cemetery

WRENN ID
final-ledge-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Liverpool
Constituency
Liverpool Wavertree MP: Paula Barker (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Funerary monument
Address
Eleanora and William Gillespie Obelisk at Toxteth Park Cemetery, Smithdown Road
OS grid reference
SJ 376 889
Coordinates
53.39378, -2.93873
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Eleanora and William Gillespie Obelisk is a funerary monument located in Toxteth Park Cemetery, built in 1871. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar with pink granite dressings and features white marble panels, showcasing a Gothic style. The monument has a battered square pedestal adorned with cusped inlaid panels set in moulded surrounds. Above this is a square tabernacle with crocketed cross-gables, supported by clustered granite shafts. The design includes cusped pointed-arched panels, one of which is inscribed. At the top, there is a tall octagonal spire finial that features bands of enrichment and is crowned with a cross.

Local climate

Eleanora and William Gillespie 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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