STATUE OF FAME IN CUPOLA, AT SOUTH END OF PARTERRE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1023842
Date first listed:: 28-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF FAME IN CUPOLA, AT SOUTH END OF PARTERRE
Statutory Address:: STATUE OF FAME IN CUPOLA, AT SOUTH END OF PARTERRE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1023842
Date first listed:: 28-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF FAME IN CUPOLA, AT SOUTH END OF PARTERRE
Statutory Address 1:: STATUE OF FAME IN CUPOLA, AT SOUTH END OF 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: STATUE OF FAME IN CUPOLA, AT SOUTH END OF PARTERRE

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 17136 26567

Details

SU 12 NE ODSTOCK LONGFORD PARK

5/143 Statue of Fame in cupola, at south end of parterre (q.v.)

GV II*

Statue of Fame under cupola. Fame by J. M. Rysbrack, 1767 and cupola by William Privett of Chilmark, 1759. Lead statue, limestone cupola. Slightly less-than-lifesize statue is beautifully executed, stands on 3-step plinth. 4 Ionic columns support corniced square roof with vase urn. (R. Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors, 1964, p311).

Listing NGR: SU1713626567

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 319524
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gunnis, R, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, (1953)
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.