SCULPTURE, VIRGINIUS AND HIS DAUGHTER, AT EAST END OF TERRACE IN BRETTON PARK, APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES NORTH OF BRETTON HALL

SCULPTURE, VIRGINIUS AND HIS DAUGHTER, AT EAST END OF TERRACE IN BRETTON PARK, APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES NORTH OF BRETTON HALL, PARK LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1184887
Date first listed:: 06-May-1988
List Entry Name:: SCULPTURE, VIRGINIUS AND HIS DAUGHTER, AT EAST END OF TERRACE IN BRETTON PARK, APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES NORTH OF BRETTON HALL
Statutory Address:: SCULPTURE, VIRGINIUS AND HIS DAUGHTER, AT EAST END OF TERRACE IN BRETTON PARK, APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES NORTH OF BRETTON HALL, PARK LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1184887
Date first listed:: 06-May-1988
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-Jun-1990
List Entry Name:: SCULPTURE, VIRGINIUS AND HIS DAUGHTER, AT EAST END OF TERRACE IN BRETTON PARK, APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES NORTH OF BRETTON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: SCULPTURE, VIRGINIUS AND HIS DAUGHTER, AT EAST END OF TERRACE IN BRETTON PARK, APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES NORTH OF BRETTON HALL, PARK LANE

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:: SCULPTURE, VIRGINIUS AND HIS DAUGHTER, AT EAST END OF TERRACE IN BRETTON PARK, APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES NORTH OF BRETTON HALL, PARK LANE

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

District:: Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: West Bretton
National Grid Reference:: SE 28529 13110

Details

SE21SE WEST BRETTON PARK ROAD (south side, off)

8/89 Sculpture, Virginius - and his Daughter, at east end of terrace in Bretton Park, approx 300 metres north of Bretton Hall.

GV II

Sculpture "Virginius and his Daughter". Mid C19 by Patrick McDowell (1799- 1870) R. A. London. Purchased by Thomas Wentworth Beaumont (1792-1848). Marble. A robed warrior holding a dead woman in one arm. On a small round plinth. Signed by McDowell. The sculpture was exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851. N. Pevsner. The Buildings of England 1967. D. Linstrum. West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture. 1978.

Listing NGR: SE2852913110

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 342585
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978)
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967)

Legal

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