Comments on: Clitheroe Pinnacle, Lancashire and Hamsterley Hall follies, Co. Durham https://thefollyflaneuse.com/pinnacles/ Rambles to, and ramblings about, Follies and Garden and Landscape Ornament. Thu, 02 Dec 2021 15:04:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Gwyn https://thefollyflaneuse.com/pinnacles/#comment-109 Mon, 03 Sep 2018 14:31:25 +0000 http://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=528#comment-109 Former government minister Alan Lennox-Boyd, Lord Boyd of Merton, acquired a 25ft pinnacle from Westminster Abbey and erected it in his garden at Wiveliscombe (not Wivelscombe as that notoriously unreliable FG&GB would have you believe) in Somerset. It’s probably not publicly accessible.

And as I always like a nice unrelated anecdote to go with my follies, Lennox-Boyd was Minister of Transport in Churchill’s government from 1952 to 1954. He said that road accidents were the result “not of the taking of large risks, but of the taking of small risks large numbers of times.” He was run over and killed while crossing the Fulham Road in 1983. At last a politician who was right about something, then.

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/pinnacles/#comment-108 Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:49:43 +0000 http://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=528#comment-108 In reply to Steve Burke, Chairman, Clitheroe Civic Society..

Congratulations on the restoration. It looked wonderful in the sunshine yesterday.

]]> By: Steve Burke, Chairman, Clitheroe Civic Society. https://thefollyflaneuse.com/pinnacles/#comment-107 Thu, 30 Aug 2018 14:14:00 +0000 http://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=528#comment-107 During the project to repair, conserve and better interpret the Listed Grade II pinnacle which resides in the Clitheroe Castle Gardens were were aware of ‘rumours’ about another extant pinnacle obtained at the same time but we were unable to locate this during the lifespan of the project (2011-2015).
It is most interesting to see a similar near complete example from the Palace of Westminster and pleased to note that – at this point in time – ‘our Pinnacle’ remains the only known example which is publicly accessible and with detailed interpretation adjacent to the monument.

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