TRIUMPHAL ARCH WEST WYCOMBE PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1160549
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: TRIUMPHAL ARCH WEST WYCOMBE PARK
Statutory Address:: TRIUMPHAL ARCH WEST WYCOMBE PARK

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Date:: 2005-03-14
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1160549
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:: TRIUMPHAL ARCH WEST WYCOMBE PARK
Statutory Address 1:: TRIUMPHAL ARCH WEST WYCOMBE PARK

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TRIUMPHAL ARCH WEST WYCOMBE PARK

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

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: West Wycombe
National Grid Reference:: SU 82900 94288

Details

WEST WYCOMBE 1. 963 Triumphal Arch, West Wycombe Park SU 8294 10/323 II*

2. Later C18 park building. Knapped flints with ashlar and stucco dressings. Tall arch with ashlar imposts, archivolt and keystone. Flanking pairs of attached Roman Doric columns on plinths; entablature breaking forward over columns, parapet with 2 pairs of pedestals and central oblong panel inscribed "Libertati Amici [ue] Sac [rum]". Archway has patterned stone paving, 2 arched niches and painted coffering to soffit of arch.

Listing NGR: SU8290094288

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 46164
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.