Garendon Park Obelisk - Loughborough, Leicestershire
N 52° 46.442 W 001° 14.854
30U E 618214 N 5848573
Brick obelisk located in a small wood
Waymark Code: WMA39A
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/09/2010
Views: 16
The Obelisk stands 24m high and is Grade II listed. It is built in the 1730s of stuccoed brick and carried on a thick iron plate carried on four ball feet set on a stone pedestal.
Garendon Park was originally the site of a Cistercian Abbey, founded in 1133. After its dissolution in 1536 the site was granted to the Earl of Rutland and was subsequently bought in 1684 by Ambrose Phillipps, a successful London lawyer. In 1729 the estate passed to his namesake grandson, a talented amateur architect known throughout Europe as “The Handsome Englishman”.
Phillipps originally planned a second obelisk on which would have been a statue of Hercules, but his early death at the age of just 30 cut short his plans.
Date Created/Placed: 1730s
Address:
20 Dunholme Avenue
Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE11 3QU
Height: 24m
Illuminated: no
Website: [Web Link]
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