SUNDIAL 150 METRES NORTH OF BELTON HOUSE

SUNDIAL 150 METRES NORTH OF BELTON HOUSE, BELTON PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1235882
Date first listed:: 21-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: SUNDIAL 150 METRES NORTH OF BELTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SUNDIAL 150 METRES NORTH OF BELTON HOUSE, BELTON PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1235882
Date first listed:: 21-Sep-1979
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Nov-1994
List Entry Name:: SUNDIAL 150 METRES NORTH OF BELTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SUNDIAL 150 METRES NORTH OF BELTON HOUSE, BELTON PARK

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:: SUNDIAL 150 METRES NORTH OF BELTON HOUSE, BELTON PARK

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

County:: Lincolnshire
District:: South Kesteven (District Authority)
Parish:: Belton and Manthorpe
National Grid Reference:: SK9301239423

Details

BELTON & MANTHORPE SK9339 BELTON PARK, Belton 1315-0/9/97 (East side) 21/09/79 Sundial 150 metres north of Belton House (Formerly Listed as: BELTON PARK, Belton Sundial approx 100m N of Belton House) GV II*

Sundial sited on the main garden axis. c1690. By CG Cibber. Portland stone figure of Time, seated on a globe, supporting a baluster column with the assistance of a cherub. The brass dial is inscribed and signed by Thomas Wright, 1725. The sundial stands on a modified octagonal sandstone base of 3 steps. This sundial may have been commissioned by Sir John Brownlow, builder of Belton House. This building appears within Belton Park which is on the Gardens Register at grade I. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J & Antram N: Lincolnshire: London: 1964-1989: 139; Marsden J & Barber A: Belton House: London: 1985-1987: 46).

Listing NGR: SK9301239423

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 382879
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Marsden, J, Barber, A , Belton House, (1985-1987), 46
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 139
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 27 Lincolnshire,

Legal

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