TERRACE STEPS AND URNS TO SOUTH AND WEST OF BRODSWORTH HALL
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151684
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1986
- Statutory Address:
- TERRACE STEPS AND URNS TO SOUTH AND WEST OF BRODSWORTH HALL
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- TERRACE STEPS AND URNS TO SOUTH AND WEST OF BRODSWORTH HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Brodsworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 50572 07024
Details
SE50NW BRODSWORTH BRODSWORTH HALL
5/32 Terrace steps and
urns to south and
west of Brodsworth
Hall
GV II
Steps and urns. 1866-1867 for Charles Thellusson. Marble. 4 sets of steps:
3 sets along south garden front, the 4th set opposite west front. Each has
well-carved greyhounds (couchant and facing inwards) flanking a 7-rise flight
with ashlar-coped side walls ramping up to broad-rimmed urns on square bases.
Matching urns stand separately at each end of the south and west terrace.
Commissioned in Italy by Chevalier Casentini who provided many marble sculptures
for the interior of Brodsworth Hall (q.v.). Account books cited by Girouard (p.876)
note a consignment in 1867 of "..marble steps and figures and Fountain vase in
Pleasure grounds".
Mark Girouard, "Brodsworth Hall, Yorkshire", Country Life, Oct 10, 1963.
Listing NGR: SE5057207024
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334453
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
'Country Life' in 10 October, (1963)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 37 South Yorkshire,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
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