SUNDIAL AT CENTRE OF ROSE GARDEN APPROXIMATELY 90 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF CLIFTON HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1314596
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: SUNDIAL AT CENTRE OF ROSE GARDEN APPROXIMATELY 90 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF CLIFTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SUNDIAL AT CENTRE OF ROSE GARDEN APPROXIMATELY 90 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF CLIFTON HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1314596
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: SUNDIAL AT CENTRE OF ROSE GARDEN APPROXIMATELY 90 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF CLIFTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SUNDIAL AT CENTRE OF ROSE GARDEN APPROXIMATELY 90 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF CLIFTON HOUSE

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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:: SUNDIAL AT CENTRE OF ROSE GARDEN APPROXIMATELY 90 METRES TO NORTH EAST OF CLIFTON HOUSE

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District:: Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK4360792746

Details

SK4392 10/30

ROTHERHAM CLIFTON PARK Sundial at centre of rose garden approximately90 metres to north east of Clifton House

GV II

Sundial. Dated 'R.W. 1739', resited 1971. Ashlar sandstone. Chamfered square plinth inscribed 'Sam.I- Walker / Fecit '; shaft octagonal becoming cylindrical with moulded capital beneath cuboidal sundial; iron gnomons on principal faces beneath the inscriptions 'Dum spectas fugio ' and ' Sic transit gloria mundi ' and with date; flat, projecting blades on side faces. Two-stage plinth to ball finial.

Samuel Walker was one of the principal iron founders of Rotherham. Originally situated at Mr. Habershon's house at The Holmes, later moved to Ferham House before relocation at Clifton House. Illustrated in present form at original location by John Guest (p486).

J. Guest, ' Historic Notices of Rotherham ', 1879.

Listing NGR: SK4360792746

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Guest, J, Historic Notices of Rotherham, (1879)

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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.