Temple, Exedra and Linking East Boundary Wall of Formal Garden at Barrow Court
TEMPLE, EXEDRA AND LINKING EAST BOUNDARY WALL OF FORMAL GARDEN AT BARROW COURT, BARROW COURT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1129170
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Temple, Exedra and Linking East Boundary Wall of Formal Garden at Barrow Court
- Statutory Address:
- TEMPLE, EXEDRA AND LINKING EAST BOUNDARY WALL OF FORMAL GARDEN AT BARROW COURT, BARROW COURT LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1129170
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Temple, Exedra and Linking East Boundary Wall of Formal Garden at Barrow Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- TEMPLE, EXEDRA AND LINKING EAST BOUNDARY WALL OF FORMAL GARDEN AT BARROW COURT, BARROW COURT LANE
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:
- TEMPLE, EXEDRA AND LINKING EAST BOUNDARY WALL OF FORMAL GARDEN AT BARROW COURT, BARROW COURT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barrow Gurney
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5152568433
Details
ST 56 NW
3/10
BARROW GURNEY C.P.
BARROW COURT LANE (west side)
Temple, Exedra and linking east Boundary Wall of formal garden at Barrow Court
G.V.
II*
Temple, Exedra and Garden Wall. Circa 1890 by F. Inigo Thomas. Rubble to
Garden Wall with dressed stone coping, ashlar to piers and architectural features
of both garden structures, stone slates to roof of Temple. The Temple is a
tetrastyle Doric loggia with a hipped roof and ridge ball finials which gives on
to a square courtyard, walled on the east and west and leading via 3 semi-
circular steps down to the formal east axis of the garden. At each side of the
steps are curving quadrant balustraded walls and tall Gatepiers, 2.5 metres high
with acanthus cornices, ball finials and fruit swagged scrolls on the wall
abutments. The Exedra is a semi-circular recess in the Boundary Wall with ball
finials to the rear wall and 2 tall piers, 3 metres high, with attached columns
with composite capitals, deeply projecting entablatures and vast urn finials with
fruit and flower swags. The piers also have large volutes extending from the
entablature to the wall. The recess has an aluminium statue of a winged female
figure of 1921 by ? A. Klein. These features together with several others
comprise a fine formal garden layout by Thomas for Henry Martin Gibbs; it is
included in the Historic Gardens Register : Part 1 Avon. (Country Life,
18 January 1902, R. Cooke, West Country Houses, 1957).
Listing NGR: ST5152568433
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 33878
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cooke, R, West Country Houses, (1957)
Country Life in 18 January, (1902)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic interest in England, Part 1 Avon,
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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