The Globe to South East of Durlston Head Castle
THE GLOBE TO SOUTH EAST OF DURLSTON HEAD CASTLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119930
- Date first listed:
- 21-Mar-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Globe to South East of Durlston Head Castle
- Statutory Address:
- THE GLOBE TO SOUTH EAST OF DURLSTON HEAD CASTLE
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- Date:
- 2002-06-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/07074/02
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119930
- Date first listed:
- 21-Mar-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Globe to South East of Durlston Head Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GLOBE TO SOUTH EAST OF DURLSTON HEAD CASTLE
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 GLOBE TO SOUTH EAST OF DURLSTON HEAD CASTLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Swanage
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 03487 77244
Details
DURLSTON HEAD 1. 5190 The Globe to south-east of Durlston Head Castle SZ 07 NW 2/49 II GV
2. Erected 1891. Stone globe about 10 ft in radius surrounded by a circle of cast iron railings. At the base is a tablet recording distances between stars and planets. To the rear are a series of panels with opposite quotations from the Bible, Shakespeare, the Aeneid and Tennyson and further tables of distances. Around the Globe are 11 posts inscribed "1815 St Martin" or "St Giles and Bloomsbury" which George Burt had acquired during his building ventures in London. Included for group value. This is how the Victorians saw the world and the universe.
Listing NGR: SZ0348777244
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108175
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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