Pelham's Pillar is a monument

Monument

A monument is a type of structure either explicitly created to commemorate a person or important event or which has become important to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, or simply as an example of historic architecture...

 dedicated to Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Earl of Yarborough

Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Earl of Yarborough

Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Earl of Yarborough , styled Hon. Charles Anderson-Pelham from 1794 to 1823, was the founder of the Royal Yacht Squadron...

 who died in 1846.

The Pillar is in Caistor

Caistor

See Caistor St Edmund for the Roman settlement in Norfolk or Caister-on-Sea for the town in NorfolkCaistor is a town and civil parish situated in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. As its name implies, it was originally a Roman castrum or fortress...

, North Lincolnshire

North Lincolnshire

North Lincolnshire is a unitary authority area in the region of Yorkshire and the Humber in England. For ceremonial purposes it is part of Lincolnshire....

 on part of the Yarborough estate at Brocklesby

Brocklesby

Brocklesby is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The village is 1 mile south of Habrough, 4 miles southwest of Immingham, close to the border of both North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire, and near Humberside International Airport...

, and is a viewing tower built to enable the earls to view the estate. It is 39 metres (128 ft) high and is guarded by two stone lions at the door. It is said that, when it was built, everything that could be seen from the top belonged to Charles Anderson-Pelham

The architect was Edward James Willson

Edward James Willson

Edward James Willson, F.S.A., , was an English architect, antiquary and politician of Lincoln. He trained Frederick James Jobson as an architect before the Jobson embarked on a career in the ministry...

 of Lincoln

Lincoln, Lincolnshire

Lincoln is a cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England.The non-metropolitan district of Lincoln has a population of 85,595; the 2001 census gave the entire area of Lincoln a population of 120,779....

. The foundation of the pillar was laid by Pelham's son Charles Anderson-Pelham, 2nd Earl of Yarborough

Charles Anderson-Pelham, 2nd Earl of Yarborough

Charles Anderson Worsley Anderson-Pelham, 2nd Earl of Yarborough was a British nobleman who succeeded to the Earldom of Yarborough in 1846....

, and it was completed by his grandson Charles Anderson-Pelham, 3rd Earl of Yarborough

Charles Anderson-Pelham, 3rd Earl of Yarborough

Charles Anderson-Pelham, 3rd Earl of Yarborough , known as Lord Worsley from 1846 to 1852, was a British peer....

, in 1849. Prince Albert visited the pillar in the year of its completion.