ROMAN SARCOPHAGUS IN GARDEN AT WITHINGTON HALL

ROMAN SARCOPHAGUS IN GARDEN AT WITHINGTON HALL, HOLMES CHAPEL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1107883
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: ROMAN SARCOPHAGUS IN GARDEN AT WITHINGTON HALL
Statutory Address:: ROMAN SARCOPHAGUS IN GARDEN AT WITHINGTON HALL, HOLMES CHAPEL ROAD

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Date:: 2002-08-21
Reference:: IOE01/08748/08
Rights:: © Mr J M Pickering. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1107883
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: ROMAN SARCOPHAGUS IN GARDEN AT WITHINGTON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: ROMAN SARCOPHAGUS IN GARDEN AT WITHINGTON HALL, HOLMES CHAPEL 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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Location

Statutory Address:: ROMAN SARCOPHAGUS IN GARDEN AT WITHINGTON HALL, HOLMES CHAPEL ROAD

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

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lower Withington
National Grid Reference:: SJ 81144 72221

Details

WITHINGTON C.P. (off) HOLMES CHAPEL ROAD SJ 87 SW

6/123 Roman Sarcophagus in Garden at Withington Hall -

GV II*

Sarcophagus. Early third century. Marble. Bowl with straight sides and rounded ends, missing cover. Front: Central panel showing three graces in high relief, the central figure with her back turned, those to either side facing, all dressed in knotted hymata to lower bodies. Panels of S-shaped flutings to either side. Figures of husband and wife in high relief to either end each with a smaller figure at their feet. The faces of these four figures having only been blocked in. Straight vertical flutings to either end with cable to lower half of each flute. The flutings extend to half way around each end after which the outline of arabesque patterns have been roughly blocked in. The rear is plain. Similar sarcophogi exist at Penrice Castle, Glamorgan, and the Villa Ferrauiulo, Albano. Source: Journal of Roman Studies, 1938, article by G Rodenwalt.

Listing NGR: SJ8114472221

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Legacy System number:: 59163
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Rodenwal, G, 'Journal of Roman' in Journal of Roman, (1938)

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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.