BURTON PYNSENT MONUMENT AT NGR ST 3768 2517

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1039561
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1959
List Entry Name:: BURTON PYNSENT MONUMENT AT NGR ST 3768 2517
Statutory Address:: BURTON PYNSENT MONUMENT AT NGR ST 3768 2517

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1039561
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1959
List Entry Name:: BURTON PYNSENT MONUMENT AT NGR ST 3768 2517
Statutory Address 1:: BURTON PYNSENT MONUMENT AT NGR ST 3768 2517

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BURTON PYNSENT MONUMENT AT NGR ST 3768 2517

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Curry Rivel
National Grid Reference:: ST 37676 25160

Details

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CURRY RIVEL CP Burton Pysent Monument at NGR ST 3768 2517

17.4.59

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Prospect tower or eyecatcher. 1757 by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, architect for William Pitt as a monument to Sir William Pynsent. Coursed and squares lias rubble core with an outer skin of Portland stone. Classical style; in all about 42m high, Square plinth with set-off to base and door opening set upon a base of steps, cornice, Roman-Doric column with internal spiral staircase capped by a cupola with a large urn finial; cupola has semi-circular bead openings and a domed roof, railings around base removed in the Second World War.

Listing NGR: ST3767625160

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Legacy System number:: 431251
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.