STATUE OF BACCHUS IN BRIDGEMAN'S AMPHITHEATRE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1283359
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1957
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF BACCHUS IN BRIDGEMAN'S AMPHITHEATRE
Statutory Address:: STATUE OF BACCHUS IN BRIDGEMAN'S AMPHITHEATRE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1283359
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1957
Date of most recent amendment:: 28-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF BACCHUS IN BRIDGEMAN'S AMPHITHEATRE
Statutory Address 1:: STATUE OF BACCHUS IN BRIDGEMAN'S AMPHITHEATRE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: STATUE OF BACCHUS IN BRIDGEMAN'S AMPHITHEATRE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Rousham
National Grid Reference:: SP 47806 24406

Details

ROUSHAM ROUSHAM PARK GARDENS SP4724 14/235 Statue of Bacchus in 27/08/57 Bridgeman's Amphitheatre (Formerly listed under Statue of Bacchus on pedestal ......) GV II* Statue. Early C18, probably by John an Nost. Lead statue of Bacchus, holding cup and grapes and accompanied by dog, stands on panelled limestone pedestal with moulded plinth and cornice. One of a group of 3 statues - including Ceres (q.v.) and Mercury (q.v.) - which stand in front of traces of an amphitheatre which was part of Charles Bridgeman's layout of the 1720s. Part of the landscape gardens laid out by William Kent between 1733 and 1740. (Rousham Park is included in the H.B.M.C. Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade I; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p 746)

Listing NGR: SP4780624406

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 252891
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 746
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire

Legal

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