PALLADIAN GATEWAY
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1052953
Date first listed: 27-Aug-1957
Date of most recent amendment: 29-Jun-1988
Statutory Address: PALLADIAN GATEWAY
Map
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Location
Statutory Address: PALLADIAN GATEWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Oxfordshire
District: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish: Rousham
National Grid Reference: SP4762424390
Details
ROUSHAM ROUSHAM PARK GARDENS
SP4724
14/223 Palladian Gateway
27/08/57 (Formerly listed under
Stable and gateway and two
stone urns on pedestals
adjoining)
GV II*
Gateway. c.1733-40 by William Kent. Limestone ashlar with chamfered rustication.
Pedimented Palladian-style gateway with 6-panelled door is flanked by ramped
walls with marble statues in niches. Visitors entered the gardens through this
gateway. Forms a part of the landscape gardens laid out by William Kent
c.1733-40.
(Rousham Park is included in the H.B.M.C. Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade
I; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p745)
Listing NGR: SP4762424390
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 252879
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J , The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 745
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.
End of official listing