Column and Vase Approximately 20 Metres South West of the Temple of Flora
COLUMN AND VASE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH WEST OF THE TEMPLE OF FLORA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1193524
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Column and Vase Approximately 20 Metres South West of the Temple of Flora
- Statutory Address:
- COLUMN AND VASE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH WEST OF THE TEMPLE OF FLORA
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- Date:
- 2002-09-17
- Reference:
- IOE01/06491/26
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1193524
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Column and Vase Approximately 20 Metres South West of the Temple of Flora
- Statutory Address 1:
- COLUMN AND VASE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH WEST OF THE TEMPLE OF FLORA
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- COLUMN AND VASE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH WEST OF THE TEMPLE OF FLORA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Nuneham Courtenay
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 54206 98194
Details
NUNEHAM COURTENAY NUNEHAM PARK SU5498 12/88 Column and vase approx. 20m. SW of the Temple of Flora
GV II
Column and vase. Probably c.1771. Limestone and terracotta. A plain circular column with a moulded base carries an elaborate terracotta vase on a fluted stem with a moulded cover. The bowl is decorated with festoons between 3 rams-head handles and the front is inscribed "IN HORTO/FUIT COR". The vase was probably a feature of the innovatory flower garden designed in 1771 by the Reverend William Mason, author of "The English Flower Garden", for Lord Nuneham, afterwards the 2nd Earl Harcourt. (Nuneham Park is included in the HBMC County Register of Gardens at Grade 1; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.729; M.Batey: Nuneham Courtenay, 1970, p.27).
Listing NGR: SU5420698194
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248325
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Batey, M, Nuneham Courtenay, (1970), 27
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 729
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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