Wycombe Abbey Former Gates and Railings From Cumberland House and Buckingham House
WYCOMBE ABBEY FORMER GATES AND RAILINGS FROM CUMBERLAND HOUSE AND BUCKINGHAM HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246231
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Wycombe Abbey Former Gates and Railings From Cumberland House and Buckingham House
- Statutory Address:
- WYCOMBE ABBEY FORMER GATES AND RAILINGS FROM CUMBERLAND HOUSE AND BUCKINGHAM HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246231
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Wycombe Abbey Former Gates and Railings From Cumberland House and Buckingham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WYCOMBE ABBEY FORMER GATES AND RAILINGS FROM CUMBERLAND HOUSE AND BUCKINGHAM HOUSE
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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:
- WYCOMBE ABBEY FORMER GATES AND RAILINGS FROM CUMBERLAND HOUSE AND BUCKINGHAM HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 86819 92555
Details
SU 8692 NE HIGH WYCOMBE THE RYE
1/10001 Wycombe Abbey
Former gates and railings
from Cumberland House
and Buckingham House
II
Railings, gatepiers and gates. 1780s, 1790s and mid C19, salvaged from houses occupied by the old War Office when in Pall Mall, London. Centre sections salvaged from Cumberland House, nos 85-87 Pall Mall, part Robert Adam's remodelling in the 1780s, gates and piers mid C19. Outer sections salvaged from Buckingham House, no 91 Pall Mall, Sir John Soane's remodelling of 1792-95. These were purchased by Lord Carrington 1908-9 and first erected as entrance gates and screen to Daws Hill House drive from High Wycombe. It was moved 25 metres south to its present location in 1924. Cast and wrought iron. on stone plinths. Its total length is 50 metres, of which 23 metres is from Buckingham House. Centre Sections (former forecourt screen to Cumberland House) comprise four gatepiers with former lamp supports, hollow piers with scrollwork, and four intermediate standards with urn finials with wrought iron decoration by Robert Adam. The central gates were removed for scrap during World War II. The mid C19 phase comprises two of the four carriage gates incorporated [non-opening] with alternating pointed and open fleur-de-lys finials. Main railing stretches with spear head finials and panels to base of railings. The outer sections (former area railings to Buckingham House of the 1790s) comprise spear head railings with three area gates incorporated [non-opening]. Seven decorative panels survive with three oval paterae within wrought iron lozenges. At the far left is a tall wrought iron panelled standard, provenance unknown.
[See "Survey of London" Vols 29,30 pp. 360-367. Illustrated in Plates 204,209, 224 and 225. Athlone Press 1960.]
Listing NGR: SU8681992555
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 454732
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England in Survey of London, (), 360-367
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England in Survey of London, ()
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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