Memorial Types

Obelisk - E8

Obelisk E8

From London Gardens On-line: "In 1883 the small triangular area in the north of the park today, comprising a quarter of an acre, was given as publi...

Steve Fairbairn

Obelisk SW15

{Medallion on an obelisk, with a portrait:} Steve Fairbairn, 1862 1938. {Plaque beneath medallion:} This memorial commemorates the centenary of ...

3 subjects commemorated, 4 creators

Thomas Paine obelisk

Obelisk EC1

Erected on the 200th anniversary of the publication of Paine's "Rights of Man", written while Paine lived at the Angel Inn which used to stand on t...

1 subject commemorated, 2 creators

Cleopatra's needle

Obelisk WC2

Pink granite, 68.5 feet high, 186 tons. Vulliamy created, and Youngs cast, the bronze sphinxes at the base, about which our colleague, Alan Patient...

4 subjects commemorated, 4 creators

Robert Waithman - obelisk

Obelisk EC4

Originally erected near Waithman's shop in Fleet Street at its junction with Farringdon Street, this obelisk was moved in 1951 to Bartholomew Close...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator