TIRSI'S URN IN WEST PART OF GARDENS AT THE BURY AT GRID REFERENCE TL 1874 2193

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177164
Date first listed:: 27-May-1968
List Entry Name:: TIRSI'S URN IN WEST PART OF GARDENS AT THE BURY AT GRID REFERENCE TL 1874 2193
Statutory Address:: TIRSI'S URN IN WEST PART OF GARDENS AT THE BURY AT GRID REFERENCE TL 1874 2193

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177164
Date first listed:: 27-May-1968
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: TIRSI'S URN IN WEST PART OF GARDENS AT THE BURY AT GRID REFERENCE TL 1874 2193
Statutory Address 1:: TIRSI'S URN IN WEST PART OF GARDENS AT THE BURY AT GRID REFERENCE TL 1874 2193

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TIRSI'S URN IN WEST PART OF GARDENS AT THE BURY AT GRID REFERENCE TL 1874 2193

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 18740 21930

Details

TL 1821 ST PAUL'S WALDEN ST PAUL'S WALDEN BURY

12/199 Tirsi's Urn in west part of gardens at The Bury at Grid Ref TL 1874 2193 27.5.68 (formerly listed as The Gardens at St Paul's Walden Bury)

GV II

Memorial urn. To Tirsi, a pet dog, who died 1768. Carved limestone urn and pedestal. A large Neo-Classical urn about l½M tall set on a pedestal of equal height and about 1M square, set within a circle of Yew trees. Urn has carved wave-pattern around base, moulded stem to ovoid shaped body with key-pattern band around shoulder. Egg-and-dart band and acanthus knob to cap. Solid stone plinth with raised and fielded panel to each face and inscription cut in W side. Moulded base and cap with delicate corona. Inscription reads: 'Within these Shades in peaceful Ashes lies/The most endearing of his Species:/TIRSI loveliest of the faithful kind/In manners meak, and of a gentle Mind./TIRSI/too early lost! the Zephirs sigh,/His Mem'ry dear, his Mistrefs ever retains,/ And fair unspotted fame attend his Manes/Ob,:7 Sep tr 1768/Aetat 4.'.

Listing NGR: TL1874021930

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 162992
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.