The Pagoda Fountain and bridge pier

The Pagoda Fountain and bridge pier, Alton Park

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1192054
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: The Pagoda Fountain and bridge pier
Statutory Address:: The Pagoda Fountain and bridge pier, Alton Park

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Date:: 2006-10-12
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1192054
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: The Pagoda Fountain and bridge pier
Statutory Address 1:: The Pagoda Fountain and bridge pier, Alton Park

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: The Pagoda Fountain and bridge pier, Alton Park

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County:: Staffordshire
District:: Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:: Farley
National Grid Reference:: SK 07670 43228

Details

SK 0643-0743 12/117

FARLEY C.P. ALTON PARK The Pagoda Fountain and bridge pier

(Formerly listed as Duck Pagoda)

3/1/67

GV II* Fountain and bridge pier. Circa 1832. By Robert Abraham. Painted cast iron on a stone base. Octagonal plan; in the form of a Chinese pagoda. Octagonal base with five steps, leading to a pagoda of three stages, each stage with openwork sides of fishscale pattern and ogee-headed openings, the upper two stages each have a low balustrade; bracketed roof and canopies with bells hanging from the scrolls at each angle, the tall roof is surmounted by a finial. A stone pier approximately 10 yards to the north formerly supported a bridge which led from the north bank of the Fishpond within which the building stands. The Pagoda Fountain is a copy of the To-ho pagoda in Canton, as illustrated by Chambers and recreated in an essentially C19 and European form.

This item forms part of the important garden layout at Alton Towers (q.v.) which is included at Grade I on the HBMC Garden Register.

Listing NGR: SK0767043228

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Legacy System number:: 275112
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 58
Other
Country Life,June 2, 1960, p.1249
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 38 Staffordshire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.