ROCKERY APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES SOUTH OF TEMPLE OF FLORA

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1286127
Date first listed:: 19-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: ROCKERY APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES SOUTH OF TEMPLE OF FLORA
Statutory Address:: ROCKERY APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES SOUTH OF TEMPLE OF FLORA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1286127
Date first listed:: 19-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: ROCKERY APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES SOUTH OF TEMPLE OF FLORA
Statutory Address 1:: ROCKERY APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES SOUTH OF TEMPLE OF FLORA

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 APPROXIMATELY 40 METRES SOUTH OF TEMPLE OF FLORA

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County:: Oxfordshire
District:: South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Nuneham Courtenay
National Grid Reference:: SU5421198181

Details

NUNEHAM COURTENAY NUNEHAM PARK SU5498 12/91 Rockery approx. 40m. S of Temple of Flora

GV II

Rockery. c.1771, extended probably early C19. Limestone and composition boulders. Rockery forms one side of the ravine-like path leading past the grotto (q.v.). A large slanting tablet within the rockery, commemorates Walter Clark, "florist", in an inscription by William Whitehead, Poet Laureate. Clark, the gardener who made the flower garden, died in 1784. The grotto formed part of the innovative flower garden designed by the Reverend William Mason, the author of "The English Flower Garden", for Lord Nuneham, afterwards the 2nd Earl Harcourt. Included for group value. (Nuneham Park is included in the HBMC County Register of Gardens at Grade I; M. Batey, Nuneham Courtenay, 1970, p.27).

Listing NGR: SU5421198181

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Legacy System number:: 248328
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Batey, M, Nuneham Courtenay, (1970), 27
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire

Legal

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