COLEORTON HALL SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS MEMORIAL AND BUST CAPPED PIERS OPPOSITE

COLEORTON HALL SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS MEMORIAL AND BUST CAPPED PIERS OPPOSITE, ASHBY ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1073573
Date first listed:: 24-Nov-1965
List Entry Name:: COLEORTON HALL SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS MEMORIAL AND BUST CAPPED PIERS OPPOSITE
Statutory Address:: COLEORTON HALL SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS MEMORIAL AND BUST CAPPED PIERS OPPOSITE, ASHBY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1073573
Date first listed:: 24-Nov-1965
List Entry Name:: COLEORTON HALL SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS MEMORIAL AND BUST CAPPED PIERS OPPOSITE
Statutory Address 1:: COLEORTON HALL SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS MEMORIAL AND BUST CAPPED PIERS OPPOSITE, ASHBY 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:: COLEORTON HALL SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS MEMORIAL AND BUST CAPPED PIERS OPPOSITE, ASHBY ROAD

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

County:: Leicestershire
District:: North West Leicestershire (District Authority)
Parish:: Coleorton
National Grid Reference:: SK 39164 17383

Details

SK 31 NE COLEORTON ASHBY ROAD 3/3 Coleorton Hall : 24.11.65 Sir Joshua Reynolds memorial and bust capped piers opposite. II Early C19. Plain square funeral urn with eared corners on 3 steps. Carries inscription in memory of Reynolds by Wordsworth. Facing the memorial down a lime avenue lined with decorative cobble and brickwork is a pair of piers capped by busts of Michaelangelo and Raphael. This urn and grave were later painted by Constable.

Listing NGR: SK3916417383

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 187771
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England, (1986)

Legal

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