EAST FORMAL GARDEN, STATUE OF WRESTLERS IN SOUTH EAST CORNER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1052915
Date first listed:: 27-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: EAST FORMAL GARDEN, STATUE OF WRESTLERS IN SOUTH EAST CORNER
Statutory Address:: EAST FORMAL GARDEN, STATUE OF WRESTLERS IN SOUTH EAST CORNER

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Date:: 2001-10-03
Reference:: IOE01/04885/24
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1052915
Date first listed:: 27-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: EAST FORMAL GARDEN, STATUE OF WRESTLERS IN SOUTH EAST CORNER
Statutory Address 1:: EAST FORMAL GARDEN, STATUE OF WRESTLERS IN SOUTH EAST CORNER

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:: EAST FORMAL GARDEN, STATUE OF WRESTLERS IN SOUTH EAST CORNER

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:: SP4422916114

Details

BLENHEIM SP4416 8/9 East Formal Garden, statue of Wrestlers in SE corner GV II* Statue of wrestlers. c.1700, by M.Soldani. Bronze statue surmounts moulded limestone ashlar pedestal. Stands in SE corner of East Formal Gardens, designed by Achille Duchene for Ninth Duke of Marlborough. One of a set of four statues presented to the first Duke of Marlborough. Massimiliano Soldani was one of the foremost Florentine sculptors of his day. (Blenheim Park is included in the HBMC Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade I)

Listing NGR: SP4422916114

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Legacy System number:: 252991
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire

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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.