LEAD STATUE AND CARVED UNICORNS' HEADS ON SECTION OF WALL BEHIND FISHPOND TO EAST OF ADLINGTON HALL

LEAD STATUE AND CARVED UNICORNS' HEADS ON SECTION OF WALL BEHIND FISHPOND TO EAST OF ADLINGTON HALL, MILL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1138853
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: LEAD STATUE AND CARVED UNICORNS' HEADS ON SECTION OF WALL BEHIND FISHPOND TO EAST OF ADLINGTON HALL
Statutory Address:: LEAD STATUE AND CARVED UNICORNS' HEADS ON SECTION OF WALL BEHIND FISHPOND TO EAST OF ADLINGTON HALL, MILL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1138853
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1984
Date of most recent amendment:: 07-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: LEAD STATUE AND CARVED UNICORNS' HEADS ON SECTION OF WALL BEHIND FISHPOND TO EAST OF ADLINGTON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: LEAD STATUE AND CARVED UNICORNS' HEADS ON SECTION OF WALL BEHIND FISHPOND TO EAST OF ADLINGTON HALL, MILL LANE

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: LEAD STATUE AND CARVED UNICORNS' HEADS ON SECTION OF WALL BEHIND FISHPOND TO EAST OF ADLINGTON HALL, MILL LANE

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

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Adlington
National Grid Reference:: SJ 90510 80476

Details

SJ 98 SW ADLINGTON C.P. MILL LANE (South Side)

3/25 Lead statue and carved unicorns' heads on section of wall behind fishpond to east of Adlington Hall.

GV II

Lead statue and carved unicorns heads: mid C18 for Charles Legh but statue moved from Wilderness garden and unicorns' heads from the tops of the Pillars c1960. Large lead statue of a reclining nude, bearded, male figure resting on his elbow and tipping a gadrooned urn forward. It is now on a rough stone plinth. Said to be Father Tiber. On the brick wall behind are 2 former capstones of gate piers. These are in buff sandstone and have fine carved unicorns' heads placed to face each other. This is the Legh's emblem.

Listing NGR: SJ9051080476

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Legacy System number:: 58191
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.