Grotto at Former Hagley Hall (NGR0395 1800)
GROTTO AT FORMER HAGLEY HALL (NGR0395 1800), HAGLEY HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060215
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Grotto at Former Hagley Hall (NGR0395 1800)
- Statutory Address:
- GROTTO AT FORMER HAGLEY HALL (NGR0395 1800), HAGLEY HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060215
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Apr-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Grotto at Former Hagley Hall (NGR0395 1800)
- Statutory Address 1:
- GROTTO AT FORMER HAGLEY HALL (NGR0395 1800), HAGLEY HALL
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.
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:
- GROTTO AT FORMER HAGLEY HALL (NGR0395 1800), HAGLEY HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Cannock Chase (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rugeley
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 03955 17996
Details
The following building shall be added:
SK 01 NW RUGELEY HAGLEY HALL
3/58 Grotto at Former Hagley Hall (NGR0395 1800)
II
Grotto. Circa late C18. Carved from red sandstone bedrock with seams of gravel. A series of interconnected underground chambers. A plain roughcast arched portal in a steep bank, leads to an aisled antechurch with groin vaults, at the end of which is a rotunda (a circular chamber) with a colonnade of 6 Tuscan columns with plain capitals and abaci supporting an entablature and saucer shaped dome. At north end of antechurch a vaulted passage turns north, with small saucer-shaped dome over corner, into antechamber with arcaded walls, cornice and hipped ceiling. From the ante- chamber a tunnel-vaulted passage to the basilica with 3-bay aisle arcades with large square piers, plain capitals and round arches and groin vaults to nave and aisles. At north (liturgical east) end of nave a round-headed apse (large niche) with pedestal-type alter. From the antechamber an inclined passage leads up to the surface.
Note: James Wyatt designed an octagonal drawing room in 1771 for Assheton Curzon of Hagley Hall (house demolished circa 1932).
Source: H. Colvin. Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600 - 1840.
Listing NGR: SK0395517996
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 271276
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)
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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