Obelisk Bath, England
Listed Building Data
Obelisk 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1394210
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II*
- Date Listed
- 12 June 1950
- Name
- OBELISK
- Location
- OBELISK, ORANGE GROVE
- District
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Grid Reference
- ST 75184 64797
- Easting
- 375184.0000
- Northing
- 164797.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
ORANGE GROVE 656-1/541/1158 Obelisk 12/06/50
GV II*
Obelisk. 1734. By Mr Borlase, mason, at the expense of Richard Beau¿ Nash. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar. plinth with moulded base and cornice, diminishing shaft, The whole stands 30' high. HISTORY: The plinth has relief coat of arms, date of erection and Latin inscription about its erection byBeau' Nash to commemorate the visit and successful cure for Prince of Orange in 1734. This feature, which cost £8-2-7 1/2d, also acted as no small Recommendation to the Building Material of the Hills of Bath for such sort of ornaments' (Wood). Culmination of improvements to Orange Grove begun with Council minutes of 28 December 1730 -Pallisades and Pillars between the Upper and Lower Walks to be taken down at the charge of this City, the ground sloped and the walks repaired and made handsome and fit for people to walk there.¿ The obelisk now stands within Alkmaar Garden, a small piece of civic landscaping designed to honour Bath¿s twinning with the Dutch town, something brought about in May 1945 at the time of the Netherlands¿ liberation from the Nazis. SOURCES: T. Fawcett and M. Inskip, `The Making of Orange Grove¿, Bath History (1994), 24-50.
Listing NGR: ST7518464797
