Obelisk Approximately 150 Metres West Of Welcombe Bank Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1972. Obelisk.
Obelisk Approximately 150 Metres West Of Welcombe Bank Farm
- WRENN ID
- waning-chalk-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1972
- Type
- Obelisk
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
HAMPTON LUCY
SP25NW INGON LANE, Welcombe 1457-1/9/75 (West side (off)) 02/08/72 Obelisk approx. 150m west of Welcombe Bank Farm (Formerly Listed as: WELCOMBE Obelisk at Welcombe Bank)
GV II
Obelisk. Erected in 1876 to the memory of Mark Philips of Welcombe. Limestone ashlar. 3 square steps to battered pedestal supporting obelisk with pronounced taper. Pedestal has Philips Arms to east; inscription to Mark Philips to west; north and south faces have inscriptions to Robert Philips, 1760-1844, and Robert Needham Philips, 1815-90, Mark Philips's father and brother. Mark Philips, 1800-73, was an important politician, one of the first pair of MPs for Manchester, 1832. An important landmark in the Welcombe Hills and the countryside between Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 467).
Listing NGR: SP2094057072
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