The Obelisk, Castle Howard

The Obelisk is a historic structure at Castle Howard, in North Yorkshire, in England.

Hawksmoor later designed Castle Howard, assisted by John Vanbrugh, and Vanbrugh designed his second obelisk, for the site where the approach road makes a right-hand turn.

Vanbrugh later erected smaller obelisks elsewhere on the estate.

It stands on a massive square base with a pulvinated cornice, and on the east and west sides are inscriptions.

[3] The latter is now illegible, but it was a verse stating the intentions of Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, who commissioned the work on the estate:

The structure, in 2008
Long view from the north