Obelisk in St Mary's churchyard
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Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 13 Oct 2011
At first sight this looked like a derelict industrial chimney, but that seems unlikely in a churchyard. It is more likely to have been an obelisk-type memorial that has lost its (probably pyramidal) top and the stone tablets in the recesses bearing inscriptions.