Water Terrace Gardens, Bernini Fountain on West Terrace
WATER TERRACE GARDENS, BERNINI FOUNTAIN ON WEST TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1052889
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Water Terrace Gardens, Bernini Fountain on West Terrace
- Statutory Address:
- WATER TERRACE GARDENS, BERNINI FOUNTAIN ON WEST TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1052889
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1957
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Water Terrace Gardens, Bernini Fountain on West Terrace
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATER TERRACE GARDENS, BERNINI FOUNTAIN ON WEST TERRACE
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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:
- WATER TERRACE GARDENS, BERNINI FOUNTAIN ON WEST TERRACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Blenheim
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 43982 16000
Details
BLENHEIM SP41NW 2/39 Water Terrace Gardens, Bernini 27/08/57 Fountain on West Terrace (Formerly listed as Bernini Fountain) GV I Fountain. Late C17, restored 1932. Marble and limestone. Four figures, depicting the rivers Nile, Ganges, Plata, and Danube or Tiber, arranged on rocky plinth surrounding obelisk. Small-scale version of fountain by Bernini at the Piazza Navona in Rome and given to the Duke of Marlborough in 1710 by the Spanish ambassador to the Papal Court in Rome. Restored in 1932 and sited in the lower Water Terrace Gardens made by Achille Duchene for the Ninth Duke, 1925-30. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p475; National Monuments Record; D. Green: "The Bernini Fountain at Blenheim"; Country Life, Vol 110 (1951), pp268-9; Blenheim Park is included in the HBMC Register of Parks and Gardensx at Grade I)
Listing NGR: SP4398216000
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253025
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in Country Life, (1951)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire
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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