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Title
Larkin Obelisk
Date
mid-19th C
Medium
pebble-dash & Roman cement
Accession number
ME3_RL_S065
Acquisition method
commissioned by The Friends of Freedom in Kent
Work type
Obelisk
Owner
Higham Parish Council
Custodian
Higham Parish Council
Work status
extant
Listing status
Grade II (England and Wales)
Listing date
21/11/66
Access
at all times
Inscription description
on the south-west face, up from the base: The Friends of Freedom in Kent erected this Monument to the Memory of / CHARLES LARKIN / In grateful testimony to his fearless and long / Advocation of Civil and Religious Liberty / And his zealous exertions in promoting the / Ever Memorable Measure of / Parliamentary Reform / AD 1832; This monument was repaired and re-inscribed at the cost of Benjamin Worthy Horne, Esqre, of Mereworth, Kent, and of Russell Square, London. AD 1869; (inscription now eroded)
