EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF HUGH LUPUS, 1ST EARL OF CHESTER

EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF HUGH LUPUS, 1ST EARL OF CHESTER, WESTERN FORECOURT TO EASTON HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1312814
Date first listed:: 02-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:: EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF HUGH LUPUS, 1ST EARL OF CHESTER
Statutory Address:: EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF HUGH LUPUS, 1ST EARL OF CHESTER, WESTERN FORECOURT TO EASTON HALL

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Date:: 2000-10-13
Reference:: IOE01/00343/10
Rights:: © Mr Michael J Tuck. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1312814
Date first listed:: 02-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:: EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF HUGH LUPUS, 1ST EARL OF CHESTER
Statutory Address 1:: EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF HUGH LUPUS, 1ST EARL OF CHESTER, WESTERN FORECOURT TO EASTON HALL

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF HUGH LUPUS, 1ST EARL OF CHESTER, WESTERN FORECOURT TO EASTON HALL

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

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Eaton and Eccleston
National Grid Reference:: SJ 41335 60714

Details

SJ 4160 EATON C.P. WESTERN FORECOURT TO EATON HALL

9/97 Equestrian Statue of Hugh Lupus, 1st Earl of Chester

II*

Equestrian Statue, 1870-9, by G F Watts for 3rd Marquis and 1st Duke of Westminster. Bronze on battered plinth of buff stone at centre of pond. Hugh Lupus, 1st (Norman) Earl of Chester, falcon on raised gauntletted wrist, is seated on a horse the model for which was bred for the purpose from a Percheron mare and an English thoroughbred stallion. Sculptor and client strove for historic accuracy in every detail; both considered the statue to be Watts's chef d' oeuvre (Gervas Huxley).

Listing NGR: SJ4133560714

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Legacy System number:: 55293
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 6 Cheshire,

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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.