Garden urn at Beechwood Park School (40 metres to north of main entrance)

Beechwood Park School, Beechwood Park, Flamstead

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1100378
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: Garden urn at Beechwood Park School (40 metres to north of main entrance)
Statutory Address:: Beechwood Park School, Beechwood Park, Flamstead

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1100378
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: Garden urn at Beechwood Park School (40 metres to north of main entrance)
Statutory Address 1:: Beechwood Park School, Beechwood Park, Flamstead

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:: Beechwood Park School, Beechwood Park, Flamstead

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:: Flamstead
National Grid Reference:: TL 04534 14529

Details

TL 01 SW 3/16

FLAMSTEAD BEECHWOOD PARK (West side) Garden urn at Beechwood Park School (40 metres to north of main entrance)

GV II Garden urn. Circa 1860, stamped 'J M BLASHFIELD/MILLWALL & PADDINGTON/LONDON'. C18 pedestal re-used. Light buff terracotta urn on Portland stone pedestal.

Cubic stone pedestal on moulded base about 1 metre high. Very large terracotta urn with bowl about 1 metre diameter with its own square plinth and stem decorated in relief with lotus leaves. Scallop decoration with tendrils between to bowl with acanthus wreathed rim. One of a set of four identical urns, those on east front probably installed when the line of the drive was set back from immediately outside the entrance door in 1860. Blashfield (1830-1870) bought some of Coade's moulds in 1836 and opened a terracotta works, employing several sculptors and supplying urns for the Royal Palaces and the Royal Mausoleum at Windsor as well as statues and architectural ornaments. .

Listing NGR: TL0453414529

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Legacy System number:: 157792
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Bullard, I V , Flamstead its Church and History, (1902), 19
Gunnis, R, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, (1953), 56

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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.