Bridge Over Avenue Ponds
BRIDGE OVER AVENUE PONDS, TEMPLE NEWSAM PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255912
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Over Avenue Ponds
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE OVER AVENUE PONDS, TEMPLE NEWSAM PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255912
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Over Avenue Ponds
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE OVER AVENUE PONDS, TEMPLE NEWSAM PARK
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.
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:
- BRIDGE OVER AVENUE PONDS, TEMPLE NEWSAM PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 36975 31748
Details
LEEDS
SE33SE TEMPLE NEWSAM PARK, Temple Newsam 714-1/12/1122 Bridge over Avenue Ponds 05/08/76
GV II
Bridge. 1714. By William Etty of York. Coursed stone string course, ashlar parapet with plain stone coping and large square piers at ends with heavy moulded caps. Situated where the East Avenue crosses Avenue Ponds, in the form of a dam wall with sluice at centre which is elliptically-arched on S side. Parapet on S side has collapsed but end piers survive, the capstone is missing from the NW and SE piers. The present East Avenue, bridge and ponds were started under the direction of William Etty and took 5 years to complete. The scheme reflects an early phase of the new taste for the natural beauty of landscape which led to the open pastoral style of Capability Brown who was commissioned to prepare plans for improvements in 1762. The mouldings are similar to those at Castle Howard. (Leeds City Art Galleries: Guide to Temple Newsam: 1989-: 32).
Listing NGR: SE3697531748
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465441
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Leeds City Art Galleries, , Temple Newsam (Guidebook), (1989), 32
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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