Listed Building record MDO47483 - Obelisk, Weatherby Castle, Milborne St Andrew

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An obelisk dated 1761.

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SY 80709629. A brick built obelisk with ashlar dressings at Weatherby Castle hill-fort comprises a rectangular brick plinth at the base, rising into a tapering shaft. At the summit are three courses of ashlar, profiled to form a pedestal for a copper ball finial. A stone in the plinth is inscribed 'EMP 1761', presumably for Edmund Morton Pleydell. <2>

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  • <1> Map: Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey Map 6in. 6 inch to 1 mile. 1968.
  • <2> Monograph: Royal Commission on Historic Monuments. 1970. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2. 2. 177.
  • <3> Digital archive: National Record of the Historic Environment. 456060.

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Grid reference Centred SY 80696 96268 (3m by 3m)
Map sheet SY89NW
Civil Parish Milborne St Andrew; Dorset

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  • Legacy UID: National Monuments Record: SY 89 NW 69
  • Legacy UID: National Record of the Historic Environment: 456060
  • Royal Commission Inventory Reference: Milborne St Andrew 2

Record last edited

Dec 5 2023 10:39AM

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