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The unfinished obelisk in its quarry at Aswan, 1990. The obelisk and wider quarry were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979 along with other examples of Upper Egyptian architecture, as part of the "Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae" (despite the quarry site being neither Nubian, nor between Abu Simbel and Philae). [2]
Waringstown Memorial Clock: a 40-foot clock tower built from local stone with 3 dial chiming clock [8] [9] Antrim: County Antrim: Knochagh Hill, Monument Road 1922–1937 Knockagh Monument: an obelisk 110 feet in height set and a site 935 feet above Belfast Lough; modeled on the Wellington Memorial in Phoenix Park, Dublin. The monument ...
Aswan includes five monuments within the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae; these are the Old and Middle Kingdom tombs of Qubbet el-Hawa, the town of Elephantine, the stone quarries and Unfinished Obelisk, the Monastery of St. Simeon and the Fatimid Cemetery. [6]
The Wellington Monument (Irish: Leacht Wellington), [2] or sometimes the Wellington Testimonial, [a] is an obelisk located in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland. The testimonial is situated at the southeast end of the Park, overlooking Kilmainham and the River Liffey. The structure is 62 metres (203 ft) tall, making it the largest obelisk in ...
The plaque on the base of the monument. The site is 390m (1230 feet) above sea level [1] and is the largest war memorial in Northern Ireland. [1] The monument is a 110-foot (34 m)-high basalt obelisk and is a replica of the Wellington Monument in Phoenix Park, Dublin, although is exactly half the height.
View history; Tools. Tools. ... In 1915 he get married and in 1920-21, after World War I, ... from a study of the unfinished Obelisk at Aswan; 1922.
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. [1]
[4] [5] The colonnades and obelisk are constructed in Portland stone, the sculpture and lettered panels are in Meuriel marble, and the Second World War inscription is in Hopton Wood stone. [5] The obelisk stands in the centre of a traffic island, with the colonnades to the northeast and southwest, and the gardens beyond them. [4]