GROUP OF 6 TERMS AND STATUE OF 4 PUTTI AT EXEDRA APPROXIMATELY 400 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH FRONT OF BLENHEIM PALACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1203404
Date first listed:: 27-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 6 TERMS AND STATUE OF 4 PUTTI AT EXEDRA APPROXIMATELY 400 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH FRONT OF BLENHEIM PALACE
Statutory Address:: GROUP OF 6 TERMS AND STATUE OF 4 PUTTI AT EXEDRA APPROXIMATELY 400 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH FRONT OF BLENHEIM PALACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1203404
Date first listed:: 27-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: GROUP OF 6 TERMS AND STATUE OF 4 PUTTI AT EXEDRA APPROXIMATELY 400 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH FRONT OF BLENHEIM PALACE
Statutory Address 1:: GROUP OF 6 TERMS AND STATUE OF 4 PUTTI AT EXEDRA APPROXIMATELY 400 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH FRONT OF BLENHEIM PALACE

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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:: GROUP OF 6 TERMS AND STATUE OF 4 PUTTI AT EXEDRA APPROXIMATELY 400 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH FRONT OF BLENHEIM PALACE

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Blenheim
National Grid Reference:: SP 44459 15802

Details

BLENHEIM SP41NW 2/15 Group of 6 terms and statue of 4 putti at Exedra approx. 400m SE of south front of Blenheim Palace GV II Group of 6 terms. 1772, by Richard Hayward. Limestone. Depict Hecate (opening urn of serpents), bearded philosopher (probably Aristotle), Bacchus, Cicero, Fawn holding sheep's head and Hercules. Terms grouped in circle around lead statue of 4 putti. Moved to late C19 exedra of yew hedges by Tenth Duke of Marlborough from their original position in the arcades of the Great Hall in Blenheim Palace. (Blenheim Park is included in the HBMC Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade I; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p475)

Listing NGR: SP4445915802

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Legacy System number:: 252997
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 475
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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire

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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.