{"id":2684,"date":"2020-08-19T14:29:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T13:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/?p=2684"},"modified":"2020-08-19T14:29:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T13:29:42","slug":"the-worden-park-obelisk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/?p=2684","title":{"rendered":"The Worden Park Obelisk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Now situated at Churchtown, Southport, Mersyside this 18 century commemorative obelisk was formerly at Worden Hall, Leyland.  Following the fire at Worden Hall the obelisk was sold around 1948 to Colonel Roger Fleetwood Hesketh of Meols Hall and placed here in 1950. It is made from dressed gritstone blocks, of square section. The pedestal is c. 2m high, with a chamfered base, one broad band and a cavetto-moulded cornice with a worn inscription running round the east, north and west sides: Rebuilt in Commemoration of the Glorious <em>illegible<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0834-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2686\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0834.jpeg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/?attachment_id=2686\" class=\"wp-image-2686\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0834-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0834-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0834-624x832.jpeg 624w, http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0834.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0835-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2687\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0835.jpeg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/?attachment_id=2687\" class=\"wp-image-2687\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0835-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0835-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0835-624x832.jpeg 624w, http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0835.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0837-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2688\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0837.jpeg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/?attachment_id=2688\" class=\"wp-image-2688\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0837-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0837-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0837-624x832.jpeg 624w, http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_0837.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now situated at Churchtown, Southport, Mersyside this 18 century commemorative obelisk was formerly at Worden Hall, Leyland. Following the fire at Worden Hall the obelisk was sold around 1948 to Colonel Roger Fleetwood Hesketh of Meols Hall and placed here in 1950. It is made from dressed gritstone blocks, of square section. The pedestal is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rayhutchings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}