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Description: Stoodley Pike

Address: Stoodley Pike Monument Langfield Common London Road Todmorden West Yorkshire

Grade: II

Group detail: Langfield Common

Full description:
Monument. Originally erected 1815 to commemorate the surrender of Paris to the Allies after the Napoleonic Wars. Rebuilt, after collapse, to a new design by John Green (Portsmouth, Todmorden) in 1856 by public subscription. Restored 1889. Pitch faced stone piers, ashlar cornice carries octagonal gallery with heavy balustrade, 40' from the ground. This supports hammer dressed stone obelisk which reaches a height of 120'. Single entrance set between stone piers has segmental arch with joggled voussoirs the keystone engraved with the Star of David. This leads into a spiral staircase leading to gallery. Over the entrance is engraved tablet which reads: ' A PEACE MONUMENT ERECTED, BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION, COMMENCED IN 1814 TO COMMEMORATE, THE SURRENDER OF PARIS TO THE ALLIES, AND FINISHED AFTER THE BATTLE OF, WATERLOO WHEN PEACE WAS ESTABLISHED, IN 1815. BY A STRANGE COINCIDENCE, THE PIKE FELL ON THE DAY THE RUSSIAN, AMBASSADOR LEFT LONDON BEFORE THE, DECLARATION OF WAR WITH RUSSIA IN 1854., WAS REBUILT WHEN PEACE WAS RESTORED IN, 1856, RESTORED AND LIGHTNING CONDUCTER FIXED, 1889'. A prominent landmark.