A pair of early Victorian magnesian limestone parapet obelisks
c.1851, ex Bylaugh Hall, Norfolk - designed by William Wilkins (d.1839) but then later built to economised drawings by Sir Charles Barry, his son Charles, and R. Banks
each tapered finial with canted corners and a pointed top and Jacobean style strapwork belts and nodules carved to the waist, dropped into a keyed cuboid base with a raised rectangular lozenge panel to each face,
POA
Long removed from the parapet of Bylaugh when the house was in a ruined state this stonework languished in the bushes before being stock-piled on an estate a few miles away. We have left the rather attractive moss and lichens as we found them.Whether pushed from the parapet by force or craned down having become unsafe, the tips of the obelisks are lacking and there are other abrasions and losses to the edges commensurate with age and weathering.
