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Survey of London
… The sarcophagus, which is placed against a grey marble obelisk beneath a tent-like baldaquin, is flanked by mourning …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Heron Court. The resident at Merritown in 1760 set up an obelisk on a barrow on the common nearly a mile north of the … a corruption of the name of the otherwise forgotten obelisk. 339 The manor of WINKTON (Weringetone, xi cent.; …
Survey of London
… stages with a short pedestal stage supporting a square obelisk. Of the stages, each of which is diminishing, the … ornament to its four surfaces, carries a square obelisk with sunk panels terminating in a ball and cross. …
Survey of London
… character of that noble structure. The banding to the obelisk above the belfry tends to make this feature appear …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… battle of Camden; the design is a reduced imitation of the obelisk of Mattheus at Rome. The seats of the Lees, …
Survey of London
… of what became the Pentonville estate. Decorated marble obelisk wall tablet (Ill. 40). John Short (d. 1794), late of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… a round-headed opening in each face and a spire proper of obelisk form surmounted by a ball and vane; the whole spire …
A History of the County of Essex
… The trustees erected in 1760 in High Street a painted obelisk, showing the distances to London and other towns; it …