URN APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES EAST SOUTH EAST OF PALLADIAN GATEWAY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1367984
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1957
List Entry Name:: URN APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES EAST SOUTH EAST OF PALLADIAN GATEWAY
Statutory Address:: URN APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES EAST SOUTH EAST OF PALLADIAN GATEWAY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1367984
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1957
Date of most recent amendment:: 28-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: URN APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES EAST SOUTH EAST OF PALLADIAN GATEWAY
Statutory Address 1:: URN APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES EAST SOUTH EAST OF PALLADIAN GATEWAY

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:: URN APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES EAST SOUTH EAST OF PALLADIAN GATEWAY

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:: SP4763024382

Details

ROUSHAM ROUSHAM PARK GARDENS SP4724 14/225 Urn approx. 10m ESE of 27/08/57 Palladian Gateway (Formerly listed under Stable and gateway and two stone urns on pedestals adjoining) GV II* Urn. c.1733-40, by William Kent. Limestone. Urn with palm fronds and Vitruvian scroll and fretting, set on panelled pedestal with moulded plinth and cornice. Forms a part of the landscape gardens laid out by William Kent c.1733-40. (Rousham Park is included in the H.B.M.C. Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade I; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p746)

Listing NGR: SP4763024382

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 252881
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.