The Aviary
Waddesdon Manor Grounds, Waddesdon, HP18 0JH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159354
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Aviary
- Statutory Address:
- Waddesdon Manor Grounds, Waddesdon, HP18 0JH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159354
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Aviary
- Statutory Address 1:
- Waddesdon Manor Grounds, Waddesdon, HP18 0JH
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:
- Waddesdon Manor Grounds, Waddesdon, HP18 0JH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Waddesdon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 73107 16547
Details
SP 7216-7316
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WADDESDON
WADDESDON MANOR GROUNDS
The Aviary
GV
II
Aviary. 1889, for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, restored 1960-66. Cast iron, metal lattice and wire mesh. Crescent-shaped with central and end pavilions.
Rococo in style with slender cast iron shafts and lattice work pilasters dividing bays, and upper borders with elaborate scrolls and shell motifs. Curving ranges of cages, each of four bays, have roof in form of a pointed barrel vault, mesh to front pitch, enclosed to rear.
End pavilions have shallow metal domes, slightly arched over each side. Central pavilion has glazed dome and rear wall of ashlar in form of grotto with wide segmental niche for fountain, piers with shaggy rustication, and tall flanking shell niches. Fountain has carved marble figure of Minerva, early C18 of Italian origin, reclining on rocks of tufa, with flanking marble tritons. Shell niches contain C17 Italian carved marble figures of a triton and a nereid sitting on twisted conch shells. Aviary has attached flanking walls of ashlar, the end piers with moulded capitals and bases.
Listing NGR: SP7310716547
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 42279
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hodgkinson, T, The James A de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor Sculpture, (1970), 65, 77 and 78
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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