PEDESTAL AND STATUE OF SPINARIO

PEDESTAL AND STATUE OF SPINARIO, SOUTH PARTERRE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1296457
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:: PEDESTAL AND STATUE OF SPINARIO
Statutory Address:: PEDESTAL AND STATUE OF SPINARIO, SOUTH PARTERRE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1296457
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: PEDESTAL AND STATUE OF SPINARIO
Statutory Address 1:: PEDESTAL AND STATUE OF SPINARIO, SOUTH PARTERRE

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:: PEDESTAL AND STATUE OF SPINARIO, SOUTH PARTERRE

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District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Henderskelfe
National Grid Reference:: SE 71722 69808

Details

HENDERSKELFE SOUTH PARTERRE SE 7169 (south-east corner) 12/64 Pedestal and statue of Spinario (formerly listed 25.1.54 under "Castle Howard with Outbuilding to east and garden statues")

GV I Composite pedestal and statue of Spinario. c1720. Pedestal by Nicholas Hawksmoor. Sandstone pedestal, lead statue. Pedestal approximately 4.5 metres in height, statue life size. Central rectangular pier surmounted by drum pedestal, flanked by rectangular buttresses with raised panels, each carrying an urn with festoons and finial on shaped base. Moulded base and cornices. Statue of Spinario, a seated boy removing a thorn from his foot. Copied from a Roman original now in the Capitoline Museum, Rome. Haskell F and Penny N, Taste and the Antique, 1981, p 308. Hussey C, English Gardens and Landscapes 1700-1750, 1967. HBMC, Register of Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England, Part 32, North Yorkshire: Castle Howard, Grade I.

Listing NGR: SE7172269808

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Legacy System number:: 329020
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Haskell, F, Penny, N , Taste and the Antique, (1981), 308
Hussey, C, English Gardens and Landscapes 1700-1750, (1967)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 32 North Yorkshire,

Legal

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