Sculpture of the Four Elements, approximately 480m south-east of the remains of Old Fonthill Abbey

Sculpture of the Four Elements, approximately 480m south-east of the remains of Old Fonthill Abbey, Fonthill Abbey Wood

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1183802
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: Sculpture of the Four Elements, approximately 480m south-east of the remains of Old Fonthill Abbey
Statutory Address:: Sculpture of the Four Elements, approximately 480m south-east of the remains of Old Fonthill Abbey, Fonthill Abbey Wood

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1183802
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: Sculpture of the Four Elements, approximately 480m south-east of the remains of Old Fonthill Abbey
Statutory Address 1:: Sculpture of the Four Elements, approximately 480m south-east of the remains of Old Fonthill Abbey, Fonthill Abbey Wood

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:: Sculpture of the Four Elements, approximately 480m south-east of the remains of Old Fonthill Abbey, Fonthill Abbey Wood

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Fonthill Gifford
National Grid Reference:: ST9222630736

Details

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 October 2018.

ST 93 SW 1/311

FONTHILL GIFFORD FONTHILL ABBEY WOOD (east side) Sculpture of the Four Elements, approximately 480m south-east of the remains of Old Fonthill Abbey

(Formerly listed as Group of four statues of th Four Elements, about 400m south-east of the remains of Fonthill Abbey)

GV II Sculptural group. Mid C19. Limestone, near life-size statues of the Four Elements on plinth. Reputedly bought by the Marquess of Westminster in the Paris Exhibition 1855 or 1867, for the gardens surrounding Fonthill Abbey (1846 by William Burn, demolished 1955).

Listing NGR: ST9236830762

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Legacy System number:: 320874
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 46 Wiltshire,

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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.