Fountain, terrace walls, steps, lions, urns and sundial approximately 27 metres south of The Orangery

Fountain, terrace walls, steps, lions, urns and sundial approximately 27 metres south of The Orangery, Alton Park

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1037875
Date first listed:: 17-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: Fountain, terrace walls, steps, lions, urns and sundial approximately 27 metres south of The Orangery
Statutory Address:: Fountain, terrace walls, steps, lions, urns and sundial approximately 27 metres south of The Orangery, Alton Park

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1037875
Date first listed:: 17-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: Fountain, terrace walls, steps, lions, urns and sundial approximately 27 metres south of The Orangery
Statutory Address 1:: Fountain, terrace walls, steps, lions, urns and sundial approximately 27 metres south of The Orangery, Alton Park

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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:: Fountain, terrace walls, steps, lions, urns and sundial approximately 27 metres south of The Orangery, Alton Park

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County:: Staffordshire
District:: Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:: Farley
National Grid Reference:: SK 07490 43365

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/01/2021 to update the name and reformat the text to current standards

SK 0643-0743 12/106

FARLEY C.P. ALTON PARK Fountain, terrace walls, steps, lions, urns and sundial approximately 27 metres south of The Orangery

(Formerly listed as Fountain, terrace walls, steps, lions, urns and sundial approximately 30 yards south of The Orangery)

GV II Fountain, walls, steps, lions, urns and sundial. Early C19. Ashlar. Two terrace walls, each approximately 46 metres long; the northern wall is bowed towards the south on each side of a central recess containing a fountain in the form of a staircase with a solid balustrade stepped upwards to the terrace wall, the ends are scrolled and surmounted by a pair of busts, three urns adorn the steps, central fountain head with scalloped shell motif above a shelf with antefixae; the southern wall is surmounted by six urns, roughly central steps flanked by a pair of crouching lions; between the two walls is a central sundial with square plan stepped base, bulbous pedestal moulded neck and square oversailing cap carrying copper gnomon.

This item forms part of the important garden layout at Alton Towers (q.v.) which is included at Grade I on the HBMC Gardens Register. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SK0749043365

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Legacy System number:: 275101
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 38 Staffordshire,

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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.