LARGE GOTHIC SEAT ABOUT 180 METRES WEST NORTHWEST OF TYNTESFIELD HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1061331
Date first listed:: 29-Apr-2002
List Entry Name:: LARGE GOTHIC SEAT ABOUT 180 METRES WEST NORTHWEST OF TYNTESFIELD HOUSE
Statutory Address:: LARGE GOTHIC SEAT ABOUT 180 METRES WEST NORTHWEST OF TYNTESFIELD HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1061331
Date first listed:: 29-Apr-2002
List Entry Name:: LARGE GOTHIC SEAT ABOUT 180 METRES WEST NORTHWEST OF TYNTESFIELD HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LARGE GOTHIC SEAT ABOUT 180 METRES WEST NORTHWEST OF TYNTESFIELD HOUSE

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:: LARGE GOTHIC SEAT ABOUT 180 METRES WEST NORTHWEST OF TYNTESFIELD HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wraxall and Failand
National Grid Reference:: ST 50445 71597

Details

WRAXALL AND FAILAND

121/0/10044 TYNTESFIELD PARK 29-APR-02 Large Gothic Seat about 180 metres west northwest of Tyntesfield House

GV II Garden seat. Circa 1865; possibly by John Norton. Stone. Semi-circular on plan with four tall piers with cusped pointed arch panels and surmounted by vases; between the piers the back of the seat comprises a frieze of pierced quatrefoils with moulded coping. The raised base is paved. A good example of a Victorian garden ornament in a grade II* garden and the largest of a set of Gothic seats in the garden at Tyntesfield.

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Legacy System number:: 489514
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.