ROCKERY IN ENGLISH BRIDGE GARDEN

ROCKERY IN ENGLISH BRIDGE GARDEN, ABBEY FOREGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271373
Date first listed:: 30-May-1969
List Entry Name:: ROCKERY IN ENGLISH BRIDGE GARDEN
Statutory Address:: ROCKERY IN ENGLISH BRIDGE GARDEN, ABBEY FOREGATE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271373
Date first listed:: 30-May-1969
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: ROCKERY IN ENGLISH BRIDGE GARDEN
Statutory Address 1:: ROCKERY IN ENGLISH BRIDGE GARDEN, ABBEY FOREGATE

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:: ROCKERY IN ENGLISH BRIDGE GARDEN, ABBEY FOREGATE

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District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Shrewsbury
National Grid Reference:: SJ 49626 12404

Details

SHREWSBURY

SJ4912SE ABBEY FOREGATE 653-1/16/61 (North side) 30/05/69 Rockery in English Bridge Garden (Formerly Listed as: ABBEY FOREGATE (North side) Rowley's Porch and fragments of masonry in Abbey Gardens)

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Rockery. Assembled probably in the late C19 from early C19 or earlier fragments. Stone. The rockery is built against a slope and comprises of fragments of sculpture in the antique style, including a figure of Justice as a centrepiece flanked by fasces, ears of wheat, cornucopia and the Salop arms. The upper level of the rockery incorporates a massive sculpted head and a medallion. HISTORICAL NOTE: the house of John Carline, a sculptor was near this site and it is likely that the fragments were assembled, or carved, by him in the early C19.

Listing NGR: SJ4962612404

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Legacy System number:: 455061
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.