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The obelisk was of standard design from Edgar Warne & Company marble works, St. Louis, the contractor for the monument material. [25] [26] [27] In the spring of 1868, the five marble components of the obelisk – four tapered shaft segments and a pyramidal capstone – were placed atop the plinth's tiered stone cap. [28]
The Wellington Monument is a 175-foot-high (53 m) triangular obelisk located on a point of the Blackdown Hills, 3 km (1.9 miles) south of Wellington in the English county of Somerset. It is a grade II* listed building and is the tallest three-sided obelisk in the world.
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The Pfalzfeld obelisk (German: Pfalzfeld Säule or Flammensäule) is a Celtic carved sandstone monument, an example of the sculpture of the Iron Age La Tène culture. The obelisk, removed from its original site to the churchyard of Pfalzfeld , is believed to have been a funerary monument from one of the nearby burial grounds.
The 73-metre (240 ft)-tall obelisk at the shrine. On 9 April 2003, a 73-metre (240 ft) obelisk symbolizing peace [4] surrounded by a new memorial wall were unveiled on a part of the grounds of the former internment camp. The obelisk is surrounded by a three-segmented, black marble wall engraved with the names of more than 30,000 Filipinos who ...
The Georgia Guidestones was a granite monument that stood in Elbert County, Georgia, United States, from 1980 to 2022.It was 19 feet 3 inches (5.87 m) tall and made from six granite slabs weighing a total of 237,746 pounds (107,840 kg). [1]
The Herndon Monument on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Academy is a 21-foot-tall (6.4 m) grey granite obelisk. It was erected in memory of Captain William Lewis Herndon, who died during the sinking of his ship, SS Central America, on September 12, 1857 while helping to evacuate passengers and crew. All women and children and many of the men ...
It was the first purpose-built traffic junction in London, and initially featured an obelisk with four oil lamps affixed to it. [2] The obelisk was removed in 1897 for a clocktower, to commemorate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee. In 1905, it was relocated to what is now the Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, in front of the Imperial War Museum. [3]