The Birdcage Arbour in Melbourne Hall Gardens
THE BIRDCAGE ARBOUR IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS, CHURCH CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1096375
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Birdcage Arbour in Melbourne Hall Gardens
- Statutory Address:
- THE BIRDCAGE ARBOUR IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS, CHURCH CLOSE
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- Date:
- 2001-04-21
- Reference:
- IOE01/03825/06
- Rights:
- © Mr Thomas Bates. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1096375
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Birdcage Arbour in Melbourne Hall Gardens
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BIRDCAGE ARBOUR IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS, CHURCH CLOSE
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:
- THE BIRDCAGE ARBOUR 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:
- SK3921924985
Details
SK 38/3925 PARISH OF MELBOURNE CHURCH CLOSE
6/79 (East Side)
10.11.67 The Birdcage Arbour in
Melbourne Hall
Gardens
GV I
Garden pavilion. c1705-10 by Robert Bakewell. Erected as the
centre piece of a French style garden designed by Royal
Gardeners to Queen Anne, London and Wise, for Thomas Coke of
Melbourne Hall, with work carried out by William Cooke of
Walcot. Stuccoed brick and wrought iron. Unique cage-like
structure of elaborate workmanship with open domed roof and open
cupola over, also with small room behind with leaded roof.
Flight of five stone steps lead up to the arbour which has an
advanced doorcase flanked by elaborate panels of decorative
ironwork with scrolls and foliage. Similar panels to sides of
the Birdcage and above is the domed roof with iron oak leaves
intertwining with scrolled panels. Similar treatment to cupola
which is surmounted by a tall finial. Small room behind has a
large segmental arch, into the Birdcage, with moulded keystone.
Inside it has a fitted bench with turned legs. Included in the
Derbyshire Historic Gardens Register at Grade I. See item 6/63
for sources. Also Country Life Jan 23, 1975, Pg 228.
Listing NGR: SK3921924985
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 83064
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hussey, C, English Gardens and Landscapes 1700-1750, (1967)
Anthony, J, Gardens of Britain, (1979)
Green, D, Gardener to Queen Anne, (1956)
Kerr, V, Melbourne Hall Gardens, (1984)
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Derbyshire, (1978)
Country Life in 14 April, (1928), 526
Country Life in 23 January, (1975), 228
Country Life in 23 September, (1899), 368
Country Life in 7 April, (1928), 492
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 10 Derbyshire,
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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