Obelisk Marking City Boundary on N Side of Roadway London, England
Listed Building Data
Obelisk Marking City Boundary on N Side of Roadway has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1378895
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 5 June 1972
- Name
- OBELISK MARKING CITY BOUNDARY ON NORTH SIDE OF ROADWAY
- Location
- OBELISK MARKING CITY BOUNDARY ON NORTH SIDE OF ROADWAY, HIGH HOLBORN
- District
- Camden
- County
- Greater London Authority
- Grid Reference
- TQ 31149 81617
- Easting
- 531149.1050
- Northing
- 181617.3690
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
CAMDEN
TQ3181NW HIGH HOLBORN 798-1/102/841 (North side) 05/06/72 Obelisk marking City boundary on north side of roadway (Formerly Listed as: HIGH HOLBORN 2 obelisks marking City boundary on each side of roadway) (Formerly Listed as: CITY OF LONDON HOLBORN Pair of Obelisks marking boundary of City of London)
GV II
Obelisk marking City boundary on north side of roadway. Mid C19. Granite. Formerly surmounted by lantern, now replaced by gilded griffin. Forms a pair with an identical obelisk on the south side of the road which is within the City of London. Both of the obelisks were listed in the City of London on 05/06/72 and later included in the LB of Camden list on 14/05/74. Following boundary changes on 1 April 1994, this northernmost obelisk is now situated in the LB of Camden and the southernmost obelisk in the City of London.
Listing NGR: TQ3114981618
