Obelisk, About 750 Metres West Of Helmingham Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. A C.1860 Monument.

Obelisk, About 750 Metres West Of Helmingham Hall

WRENN ID
forgotten-foundation-dock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Country
England
Type
Monument
Source
Historic England listing

Description

TM 15 NE 4/89

HELMINGHAM HELMINGHAM PARK Obelisk, about 750m west of Helmingham Hall

II

Obelisk, c.1860. About 20m high and standing on a mound about 7m high. Red brick. A square plinth about 2.5m high has a square sinking in each face. The needle-formed obelisk rises without interruption, tapering to a width of 0.5m at the head. A prominent landscape feature in the centre of Helmingham Park. The mound was part of an C18 wilderness garden; a summerhouse of c.1760, together with a brick wall, was demolished and the bricks reused in the obelisk. Included as Grade I in the H.B.M.C. Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.

Listing NGR: TM1788357667

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