STATUE OF FARNESE HERCULES AND PEDESTAL

STATUE OF FARNESE HERCULES AND PEDESTAL, TERRACE WALK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1173011
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF FARNESE HERCULES AND PEDESTAL
Statutory Address:: STATUE OF FARNESE HERCULES AND PEDESTAL, TERRACE WALK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1173011
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF FARNESE HERCULES AND PEDESTAL
Statutory Address 1:: STATUE OF FARNESE HERCULES AND PEDESTAL, TERRACE WALK

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:: STATUE OF FARNESE HERCULES AND PEDESTAL, TERRACE 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 71860 70023

Details

HENDERSKELFE TERRACE WALK SE 7170 (south side) 11/81 Statue of Farnese Hercules and pedestal (formerly listed under 25.1.54 "Castle Howard with Outbuilding to east and garden statues") GV TT* Statue of Farnese Hercules and the plinth on which it stands. Statue 1723 by Andrew Carpenter. Sandstone pedestal, lead statue. Pedestal 2.25 metres, statue life size. 2 steps up to pedestal with cavetto-moulded base and sunk panels bearing garlands carved in relief and egg-and-dart cornice. Statue of the Farnese Hercules, a very muscular, bearded figure, from a C3 AD copy of a Greek original, now in Museo Nationale, Naples. Haskell F and Penny N, Taste and the Antique, 1981, p 229. HBMC, Register of Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England, Part 32, North Yorkshire: Castle Howard, Grade I.

Listing NGR: SE7185970024

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Legacy System number:: 329037
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Haskell, F, Penny, N , Taste and the Antique, (1981)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 32 North 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.