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The Environs of London
… in the year 1733. Near the centre of this ground is an obelisk, erected in the year 1751 by Andrew Millar, an … as appears by an inscription on the south side of the obelisk. He himself was buried there in 1768; his widow …
Old and New London
… work of Grinling Gibbons; and in the grounds is a granite obelisk erected to the memory of the officers and men who …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… erosion of the chalk. 25 The Cherhill monument, a downland obelisk on the perimeter of Oldbury castle, stands in Calne …
Old and New London
… out in the first taste, the vistas terminated by a temple, obelisk, or some similar ornament, so as to produce the most … are led to an inclosure, where are a Roman temple and an obelisk; and on its banks stands an exact model of the … cedars feathering to the ground; the temples and obelisk, happily situate on the banks of the river, or …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… a lead-covered octagonal dome, flanked on either side by 4 obelisk-shaped chimney stacks. From the main front projects a … radiated further walks; three more walks radiating from an obelisk in the south-west corner of the grounds, one to the … to an Ionic temple, visible from the villa, and another obelisk in a pond within an amphitheatre. A gateway given by …