Wednesday, 6 December 2023

Mitcham Obelisk / 2023

"Erected by the Reverend Richard Cranmer, Lord of the Manor of Mitcham Canons to commemorate the finding of an artesian spring there after the dry summers" [source PMSA]. Channelled render, approx. 6m high, inscribed 25 September 1822. Grade II listed 1954. Not particularly well restored in 2021. London Borough of Merton. 
(CC BY-NC-ND - credit: Images George Rex)