ST CHRISTOPHER'S WELL IN DENTON PARK

ST CHRISTOPHER'S WELL IN DENTON PARK, HARSTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1062336
Date first listed:: 21-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: ST CHRISTOPHER'S WELL IN DENTON PARK
Statutory Address:: ST CHRISTOPHER'S WELL IN DENTON PARK, HARSTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1062336
Date first listed:: 21-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: ST CHRISTOPHER'S WELL IN DENTON PARK
Statutory Address 1:: ST CHRISTOPHER'S WELL IN DENTON PARK, HARSTON ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ST CHRISTOPHER'S WELL IN DENTON PARK, HARSTON ROAD

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

County:: Lincolnshire
District:: South Kesteven (District Authority)
Parish:: Denton
National Grid Reference:: SK 86188 32030

Details

DENTON HARSTON ROAD SK 8632-8732 (south side) 10/60 St. Christopher's Well, in Denton Park 21.9.79 II* Well and grotto. 1823. Tufa. Grotto, built on the side of the lake to appear underground. Naturalistic archway leads to circular cavern with vault of tufa into which are built ammonite fossils. Beneath the wall facing the archway a small circular well from which a water filled gulley leads to the lake. Above the well an inscribed stone containing 3 verses of a romantic poem and the date of 1823 in Roman numerals. Built as a landscape ornament in the grounds of Denton Park for the Welby family.

Listing NGR: SK8618832030

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Legacy System number:: 193301
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.