PAIR OF SPHINXES TO SOUTH OF TEMPLE IN THEATRE IN THE GARDENS AT THE BURY AT GRID REFERENCE TL 1887 2205

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177145
Date first listed:: 27-May-1968
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF SPHINXES TO SOUTH OF TEMPLE IN THEATRE IN THE GARDENS AT THE BURY AT GRID REFERENCE TL 1887 2205
Statutory Address:: PAIR OF SPHINXES TO SOUTH OF TEMPLE IN THEATRE IN THE GARDENS AT THE BURY AT GRID REFERENCE TL 1887 2205

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177145
Date first listed:: 27-May-1968
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: PAIR OF SPHINXES TO SOUTH OF TEMPLE IN THEATRE IN THE GARDENS AT THE BURY AT GRID REFERENCE TL 1887 2205
Statutory Address 1:: PAIR OF SPHINXES TO SOUTH OF TEMPLE IN THEATRE IN THE GARDENS AT THE BURY AT GRID REFERENCE TL 1887 2205

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: PAIR OF SPHINXES TO SOUTH OF TEMPLE IN THEATRE IN THE GARDENS AT THE BURY AT GRID REFERENCE TL 1887 2205

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: St. Paul's Walden
National Grid Reference:: TL 18870 22050

Details

TL 1822 ST PAUL'S WALDEN ST PAUL'S WALDEN BURY

10/195 Pair of sphinxes to south of temple in theatre in the gardens at The Bury at Grid Ref TL 1887 2205 (formerly listed as 27.5.68 The Gardens at St Paul's Walden Bury)

GV II

Pair of statues of sphinxes. C18 probably English after French models of time of Louis XIV. Lead figures on limestone plinths. 2 crouched half-lifesize figures with paws extended facing one another. E figure has tasselled covering extended to form the back of a dress with enlarged shoulders to female torso with hair in a kerchief. Rusticated base to figure. Broad moulded base and cap to stone plinth with bead-moulded sunk panel in each face. W figure similar but dress has bows to shoulders and she wears a choker and her hair in a bun. The figures are probably not representations of particular persons.

Listing NGR: TL1887022050

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 162988
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 21 Hertfordshire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.