Pool, Summer House and Statuary Approximately 60 Metres South of Manor House
POOL, SUMMER HOUSE AND STATUARY APPROXIMATELY 60 METRES SOUTH OF MANOR HOUSE, SOUTHEND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047689
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Pool, Summer House and Statuary Approximately 60 Metres South of Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- POOL, SUMMER HOUSE AND STATUARY APPROXIMATELY 60 METRES SOUTH OF MANOR HOUSE, SOUTHEND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047689
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Pool, Summer House and Statuary Approximately 60 Metres South of Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- POOL, SUMMER HOUSE AND STATUARY APPROXIMATELY 60 METRES SOUTH OF MANOR HOUSE, SOUTHEND
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- POOL, SUMMER HOUSE AND STATUARY APPROXIMATELY 60 METRES SOUTH OF MANOR HOUSE, SOUTHEND
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Garsington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 58222 01902
Details
SP 5801 GARSINGTON SOUTHEND (West side) 11/59 Pool, summer-house and statuary approx 60 metres south of Manor House. GV II
Formal pool, summer-house and 9 statues on pedestals. Circa 1920. Created for Philip and Lady Ottoline Morrell. Large rectangular pool in a dressed limestone basin with a central rectangular stone-paved island, set across the garden (south) axis of the house. Painted wooden summer-house, known as The Temple (centre east) has the doorway flanked by small openings set between 4 simple pilasters beneath a rustic entablature and triangular pediment. It was brought from the Morrells former country house at Peppard. Round the sides of the pool are 8 full-length standing stone figures on stone pedestals set in recesses in a yew hedge. A further statue is on the island. In clockwise order they are:- a) East: Male, girdled with a vine and holding a shield-shaped tablet. Base inscribed "....VROR POETICUS ". Square pedestal with moulded base and cornice and front panel. b) East: Partly-draped female with bee-hive(?). Base inscribed "THEO..." Pedestal as (a). c) South: Partly-draped female with quiver. Fluted cylindrical pedestal with moulded base and cornice. d) South: Partly-draped male (Vulcan) with hammer and anvil. One foot replaced. Very fine work. Square pedestal with moulded base and cornice and panelled sides. e) South: Partly-draped female. Parts of both arms detached. Pedestal as (c). f) West: Nude female holding branch. Square pedestal with moulded base and cornice. g) West: Partly draped figure. Pedestal as (f). h) North: Figure on square pedestal. i) Island: Reclining female on oval pedestal ornamented with festoons and mask. The pool forms the focus of the elaborate Italian garden laid out by the Morrells with the assistance of Philip Tylden. It was formed from a medieval fishpond. Many well known artists and writers were frequent visitors during the Morrells' occupancy (1915-28) and some, conscientious objectors, were employed as workmen durng the First World War. (Buildings of England : Oxfordshire, p.612; R. Ingrams, Garsington Manor, (privately printed)).
Listing NGR: SP5822201902
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 246447
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 612
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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