Grotto and Ruin in Fawley Court Grounds
GROTTO AND RUIN IN FAWLEY COURT GROUNDS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125742
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Grotto and Ruin in Fawley Court Grounds
- Statutory Address:
- GROTTO AND RUIN IN FAWLEY COURT GROUNDS
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/06950/09
- Rights:
- © Mr Dennis Jeffrey. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125742
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Grotto and Ruin in Fawley Court Grounds
- Statutory Address 1:
- GROTTO AND RUIN IN FAWLEY COURT GROUNDS
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:
- GROTTO AND RUIN IN FAWLEY COURT GROUNDS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Fawley
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 76669 84010
Details
FAWLEY FAWLEY COURT SU 78 SE 8/19 Grotto and Ruin in Fawley Court Grounds 21.6.55 GV II
Garden folly in form of ruin with domed grotto. Mid C18, by John Freeman of Fawley Court. Flint, with some stone dressings, and tiled roof over dome. W. end has projecting passage with C14 moulded pointed arch at entrance and roundel with egg and dart moulding above. Behind passage is a high wall with ruinous outline, incorporating a re- used 3-light Perpendicular window and 2 moulded stone corbels. Left side of passage has arched niche; right side has small closet with remains of arched shelves. Grotto has wide semi-circular arch with flanking roundels to N. and massive rusticated rectangular doorway of knapped flint with pediment to S. To left of doorway is a brick arch with flint imposts and keyblock, to right is a roundel. Interior has fine dome of flint with ornamental ribs and frieze of knuckle bones. Entrances now have 1984 metal grills. Folly originally housed part of John Freeman's collection of the Arundel marbles, including a fragment of the Pergamon altar. (G. Tyack, Records of Bucks. Vol. 24 p. 134-5).
Listing NGR: SU7666984010
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 46669
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Records of Buckinghamshire in Records of Buckinghamshire, Vol. 24, (), 134-135
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 4 Buckinghamshire,
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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