Monument to Duke of Beaufort, Circa 100 Metres North East of Dower House
MONUMENT TO DUKE OF BEAUFORT, CIRCA 100 METRES NORTH EAST OF DOWER HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312887
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Monument to Duke of Beaufort, Circa 100 Metres North East of Dower House
- Statutory Address:
- MONUMENT TO DUKE OF BEAUFORT, CIRCA 100 METRES NORTH EAST OF DOWER HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312887
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Monument to Duke of Beaufort, Circa 100 Metres North East of Dower House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MONUMENT TO DUKE OF BEAUFORT, CIRCA 100 METRES NORTH EAST OF DOWER HOUSE
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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:
- MONUMENT TO DUKE OF BEAUFORT, CIRCA 100 METRES NORTH EAST OF DOWER HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stoke Gifford
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 62128 77368
Details
In the entry for
ST 67 NW STOKE GIFFORD STOKE PARK
4/18 Monument to a race
horse, 100 metres
North East of Dower
GV House
II
the address shall be amended to read STOKE PARK
Monument to Duke of
Beaufort, c100 metres
North East of Dower
House
II
and the description shall be amended to read
Monument to 4th Duke of Beaufort, d1756; the monument in situ by 1764;
designer Thomas Wright. Limestone ashlar. Rectangular plinth with diagonal
'buttresses' carrying four rusticated 'rocks' which in turn support a
rectangular sarcophagus with diagonal 'buttresses'; plinth has moulded offset
base course and broad capping. The sarcophagus has a 3-part architrave
carrying a frieze with a series of triglyphs, in which the glyphs are raised
rather than incised, and a deep cavetto cornice. The frieze has a carved
legend reading: FRATERNI DIGNUS AMORIS (Worthy of Brotherly Love). The
monument, recently (1987) repaired and re-erected by the Avon Gardens Trust,
was for long thought to commemorate a race horse. (Saving the Wizard's
Landscape: Country Life; 14-4-88. Stewart Harding and David Lambert).
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ST 67 NW STOKE GIFFORD STOKE PARK
4/18 Monument to a racehorse, 100 metres
north east of Dower House
G.V.
II
Monument. Early C19. Ashlar. A buttressed, solid table with moulded plinth
and slab; 4 freestanding rock faced blocks on the slab support, a sarcophagus of
similar shape which is decorated as a partial entablature with moulded architrave,
triglyphs in the frieze and a cavetto cornice, the whole surmounted by rock-faced
stones. Fading legend on frieze reads FRATERNI ---NVS A-ORIS. Commemorates a
winner of the St. Leger. (D. Verey, Buildings of England : Gloucestershire, The
Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970).
Listing NGR: ST6212877368
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 35046
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in Country Life, (1988)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic interest in England, Part 1 Avon,
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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