CAPTAIN COOKS MONUMENT THE SHELL BRIDGE

CAPTAIN COOKS MONUMENT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1211939
Date first listed:: 13-Jul-1966
List Entry Name:: CAPTAIN COOKS MONUMENT THE SHELL BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: CAPTAIN COOKS MONUMENT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1211939
Date first listed:: 13-Jul-1966
List Entry Name:: CAPTAIN COOKS MONUMENT THE SHELL BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: CAPTAIN COOKS MONUMENT
Statutory Address 2:: THE SHELL BRIDGE

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:: CAPTAIN COOKS MONUMENT
Statutory Address:: THE SHELL BRIDGE

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

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stowe
National Grid Reference:: SP 67742 37338

Details

SP 6737 STOWE

9/70 STOWE SCHOOL The Shell Bridge and Captain Cook's Monument

13.7.66 GV I

A dam in the Elysian Fields, disguised as a low bridge. c1740 by Kent. Stone dressings, rendering encrusted with shells. Five bays with low arches, central bay projecting and pedimented, 2 smaller pediments each side above piers. Captain Cook's Monument, standing on the bridge, is a small monument with portrait medallion dated 1778.

Listing NGR: SP6773937341

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Legacy System number:: 396463
Legacy System:: LBS

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Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 4 Buckinghamshire,

Legal

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