Soanes Obelisk

I was fortunate enough to visit Sir John Soanes museum and country seat in Ealing last year, a fascinating place, and while doing some research on him I discovered that he'd had a commission to design an obelisk in Reading town centre (I blogged about it at the time) Soanes was commissioned to create the monument and it was paid for by a wealthy Reading merchant (Edward Simeon) back in 1804 and is called the "Soane Obelisk" We happened to be walking through that very spot the other day and I snapped this photo..