TWO PAIRS OF CHERUBS TO NORTH WEST OF THE GRAND BASIN IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS

TWO PAIRS OF CHERUBS TO NORTH WEST OF THE GRAND BASIN IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS, CHURCH CLOSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1096372
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:: TWO PAIRS OF CHERUBS TO NORTH WEST OF THE GRAND BASIN IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS
Statutory Address:: TWO PAIRS OF CHERUBS TO NORTH WEST OF THE GRAND BASIN IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS, CHURCH CLOSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1096372
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: TWO PAIRS OF CHERUBS TO NORTH WEST OF THE GRAND BASIN IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS
Statutory Address 1:: TWO PAIRS OF CHERUBS TO NORTH WEST OF THE GRAND BASIN IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS, CHURCH CLOSE

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:: TWO PAIRS OF CHERUBS TO NORTH WEST OF THE GRAND BASIN IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS, CHURCH CLOSE

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

County:: Derbyshire
District:: South Derbyshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Melbourne
National Grid Reference:: SK 39141 25032

Details

SK 38/3925 PARISH OF MELBOURNE CHURCH CLOSE 6/74 (East Side) 10.11.67 Two Pairs of Cherubs to North-West of the Grand Basin in Melbourne Hall Gardens (formerly listed as 'Pair of pedestals with fighting cupids on north side of garden, Melbourne Hall') GV I Two pairs of cherubs. c1700 by Jan van Nost. Erected as part of a French style garden, designed by Royal Gardeners to Queen Anne, London and Wise, for Thomas Coke of Melbourne Hall. Stone and lead. Each pair of cherubs stand on a panelled stone pedestal with moulded base and cornice. To the western pair, one cherub is snatching a bunch of lilies from the other and to the eastern pair the cherubs are quarrelling. These form a group with two pairs of cherubs on the opposite side of the Basin and tell the tale of Castor and his brother Pollux fighting over a bunch of flowers and their eventual reconciliation. Included in the Derbyshire Historic Gardens Register at Grade I. See item 6/63 for sources.

Listing NGR: SK3914125032

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 83059
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Anthony, J, Gardens of Britain, (1979)
Green, D, Gardener to Queen Anne, (1956)
Hussey, C, English Gardens and Landscapes 1700-1750, (1967)
Kerr, V , Melbourne Hall Gardens, (1984)
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Derbyshire, (1978)
'Country Life' in 7 April, (1928), 492
'Country Life' in 23 September, (1899), 368
'Country Life' in 14 April, (1928), 526
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 10 Derbyshire,

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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.