PARTERRE WALLS IN GARDEN TO SOUTH OF LONGFORD CASTLE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1023841
Date first listed:: 28-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:: PARTERRE WALLS IN GARDEN TO SOUTH OF LONGFORD CASTLE
Statutory Address:: PARTERRE WALLS IN GARDEN TO SOUTH OF LONGFORD CASTLE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1023841
Date first listed:: 28-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:: PARTERRE WALLS IN GARDEN TO SOUTH OF LONGFORD CASTLE
Statutory Address 1:: PARTERRE WALLS IN GARDEN TO SOUTH OF LONGFORD CASTLE

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:: PARTERRE WALLS IN GARDEN TO SOUTH OF LONGFORD CASTLE

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Odstock
National Grid Reference:: SU 17102 26607

Details

SU 12 NE ODSTOCK LONGFORD PARK

5/142 Parterre walls in garden to south of Longford Castle (q.v.)

GV II

Parterre walls. 1832. Buff brick with stone coping and ball finials. Dwarf walls with open parapet, weathered coping and ball finials, enclose rectangular garden with oval south end, about 100 metres long. Part of reorganisation of south gardens by 3rd Earl of Radnor in 1832, many pieces of sculpture from C18 gardens were collected into the area of the parterre at this time, such as Rysbrack's Fame (q.v.) and six mythological terms by Sefferin Alkin c1759. (R. Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculpture, 1964 p16 J. Cornforth, Country Life Annual 1968 p37 Unpublished records of RCHM (England), Salisbury).

Listing NGR: SU1710226607

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 319523
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Cornforth, J , Country Life Annual, (1968)
Gunnis, R, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, (1953), 16
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 46 Wiltshire,

Legal

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