Garden Ornament, 70 Metres to North East of Priory Gardens Cottage
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159335
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Ornament, 70 Metres to North East of Priory Gardens Cottage
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159335
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Dec-2012
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Ornament, 70 Metres to North East of Priory Gardens Cottage
- Location Description:
- NZ6164115952
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Redcar and Cleveland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Guisborough
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ6164215952
Summary
Late-C17 pedestal to missing garden ornament.
Reasons for Designation
The late-C17 garden ornament 70m to the north-east of Priory Gardens Cottage is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historic: as a built element of the designed landscape at Gisborough Priory Gardens
* Group value: for its association with numerous other listed structures and the scheduled Gisborough Priory ruins, which together provide physical evidence as to the story of an historically significant site with a great time depth
* Date: for its retention of pre-1700 fabric
History
The lands belonging to the former Priory were first leased by Thomas Chaloner in 1547, who subsequently purchased them in 1550 for £998. It was not until the death of Edward Chaloner in 1680 that the family moved to the site. Edward’s son William constructed a mansion on Bow Street, known as Old Hall, and it was at this point that the gardens were developed. The standing stonework of the Priory was incorporated into the ornamental gardens to provide a setting to the Hall. Research into the gardens has identified three main phases; 1709, 1773-1805 and 1854.
This pedestal has previously been identified as late C17 and may date to the first period of garden development. It was however reused, and possibly moved, in the early C20 to form the central feature of a rose garden created under Richard Chaloner. This was originally bounded by hexagonal box hedging, some of which may survive. The pedestal was formerly surmounted by a late-C18 octagonal stone vase, described in the 1984 list description as an ogee shaped bowl with everted rim; egg and dart moulding on ovolo rim; foliated calyx and bun foot. This was stolen sometime during the late C20.
Details
MATERIALS: sandstone
PLAN: square
DESCRIPTION: large pedestal with paterae and heavily moulded cornice.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 59908
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gisborough Priory Project, , The Lost Gardens of Gisborough Priory, (2008)
Other
Reid Jubb Brown Partnership for Gisborough Priory Project, The Strategic and Operational Plan for the Gisborough Priory Gardens, May 2006,
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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