CASTLE HOWARD THE FOUR FACES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1316051
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:: CASTLE HOWARD THE FOUR FACES
Statutory Address:: CASTLE HOWARD THE FOUR FACES

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1316051
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:: CASTLE HOWARD THE FOUR FACES
Statutory Address 1:: CASTLE HOWARD THE FOUR FACES

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

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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:: CASTLE HOWARD THE FOUR FACES

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District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Henderskelfe
National Grid Reference:: SE 73083 68733

Details

HENDERSKELFE PRETTY WOOD SE 76 NW Castle Howard 7/51 The Four Faces 25.1.54 GV I Sculpture. Before 1727. By Nicholas Hawksmoor for Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle. Limestone, approximately 6 metres in height. Massive square plinth carries 4 pulvinated courses on which stands a rusticated base with raised panels and moulded cornice. A tapering column above carries a bulbous 4-cornered sculpture with damaged faces to each facade. Damaged apex. Appears on estate map of 1727. HBMC, Register of Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England, Part 32, North Yorkshire: Castle Howard, Grade I.

Listing NGR: SE7308568734

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Legacy System number:: 329007
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 32 North Yorkshire,

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