12 STONE URNS AND LINKING WALLS AND STEPS

12 STONE URNS AND LINKING WALLS AND STEPS, THE CRESCENT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1257871
Date first listed:: 04-Dec-1990
List Entry Name:: 12 STONE URNS AND LINKING WALLS AND STEPS
Statutory Address:: 12 STONE URNS AND LINKING WALLS AND STEPS, THE CRESCENT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1257871
Date first listed:: 04-Dec-1990
List Entry Name:: 12 STONE URNS AND LINKING WALLS AND STEPS
Statutory Address 1:: 12 STONE URNS AND LINKING WALLS AND STEPS, THE CRESCENT

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:: 12 STONE URNS AND LINKING WALLS AND STEPS, THE CRESCENT

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

County:: Derbyshire
District:: High Peak (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 05847 73537

Details

BUXTON

SK0573NE THE CRESCENT 616-1/3/82 (South side) 04/12/90 12 Stone Urns and linking walls and steps

GV II*

Twelve stone urns on plinths with linking walls and steps. 1753, 1818, 1859 and restored 1994. Urns carved probably by Robert Parsons of Bath for Lord Burlington at Londesborough Hall, Yorkshire and brought to Buxton by the 6th Duke of Devonshire and placed here as part of Sir Jeffrey Wyatville's landscaping of The Slopes in 1818, and altered 1859 by Sir Joseph Paxton. Limestone urns set on gritstone plinths with gritstone walls and steps. Urns with pedestals, the lower part of the bowls decorated with leaves the tops with a continuous Vitruvian scroll frieze below a Greek key frieze, topped with circular caps decorated with leaves. Three tiers of low quadrant terrace wall linked by lower walls and steps. Lower terrace wall linked by 4 sets of steps with attendant urn in shallow recesses. Middle terrace has 2 urns flanking central steps and 2 occupying shallow recesses as terminals. Top terrace has 2 urns flanking steps leading to central platform with War Memorial (qv), and 2 urns as terminals. Together the urns walls and steps form an important piece of landscaping opposite John Carr's The Crescent. (Strutt Prints: Engraving of the New Promenade Walks.: Buxton (IB 33): ZSP 1/32/6.).

Listing NGR: SK0584773537

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Legacy System:: LBS

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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.