PAIR OF PEDESTALS SUPPORTING FRUIT BOWL VASE IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS

PAIR OF PEDESTALS SUPPORTING FRUIT BOWL VASE IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS, CHURCH CLOSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1096409
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF PEDESTALS SUPPORTING FRUIT BOWL VASE IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS
Statutory Address:: PAIR OF PEDESTALS SUPPORTING FRUIT BOWL VASE IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS, CHURCH CLOSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1096409
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF PEDESTALS SUPPORTING FRUIT BOWL VASE IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS
Statutory Address 1:: PAIR OF PEDESTALS SUPPORTING FRUIT BOWL VASE 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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Location

Statutory Address:: PAIR OF PEDESTALS SUPPORTING FRUIT BOWL VASE 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 38998 25013

Details

SK 38/3925 PARISH OF MELBOURNE CHURCH CLOSE 6/63 (East Side) 10.11.67 Pair of Pedestals Supporting Fruit Bowl Vase in Melbourne Hall Gardens (formerly as 'Pair of pedestals supporting vases on house terrace, Melbourne Hall) GV I Pair of pedestals supporting fruit bowl vases. Late C17. Incorporated into early C18 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. Stone. Two similar pedestals and vases. Each has a plain pedestal on stepped plinth, with large lattice work basket over containing fruit and flowers, standing on a moulded tapering base. These probably belonged to the earlier formal garden at Melbourne Hall. Included in the Derbyshire Historic Gardens Register at Grade I. Sources - see Anthony J, 'Gardens of Britain', 1979, Country Life 23 Sept 1899, p368, 7 April 1928, p492, 14 April 1928, p526. Hussey C, 'English Gardens and Landscapes 1700- 1750' 1967. Pevsner N, revised Williamson E, 'Derbyshire' 1978. Green D 'Gardener to Queen Anne' 1956. Also V Kerr, 'Melbourne Hall Gardens', 1984.

Listing NGR: SK3899825013

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Legacy System number:: 83048
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), 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.