Medici Vase and Pedestal

MEDICI VASE AND PEDESTAL, BROAD WALK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1172761
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Medici Vase and Pedestal
Statutory Address:
MEDICI VASE AND PEDESTAL, BROAD WALK
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1172761
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Medici Vase and Pedestal
Statutory Address 1:
MEDICI VASE AND PEDESTAL, BROAD WALK

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MEDICI VASE AND PEDESTAL, BROAD WALK

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Henderskelfe
National Grid Reference:
SE 71870 70102

Details

In the entry for:-

HENDERSKELFE BROAD WALK SE 7170 (east end) 11/34 Castle Howard Medici Vase and pedestal GV II

The grade shall be amended to read II* (star)

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HENDERSKELFE BROAD WALK SE 7170 (east end) Castle Howard 11/34 Medici Vase and pedestal GV II Medici vase and the pedestal on which it stands. Purchased 1778. Vase made by the Coade Company in Coade stone on sandstone base. Approximately 3.5 metres in height. Waterleaf enrichment to pedestal base. Sunk panels, one bearing Latin inscription, the other 3 with antique medallions. Moulded cornice carrying copy of Medici Vase decorated with figures representing the sacrifice of Iphigenia. Original: Cl AD now in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Haskell F and Penny N, Taste and the Antique, 1981, p 316. HBMC, Register of Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England, Part 32, North Yorkshire: Castle Howard, Grade 1.

Listing NGR: SE7187070102

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Legacy System number:
328990
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Haskell, F, Penny, N, Taste and the Antique, (1981), 316

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 32 North Yorkshire,

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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.

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