Keppels Column
KEPPELS COLUMN, ADMIRALS CREST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1314632
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Keppels Column
- Statutory Address:
- KEPPELS COLUMN, ADMIRALS CREST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1314632
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Keppels Column
- Statutory Address 1:
- KEPPELS COLUMN, ADMIRALS CREST
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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:
- KEPPELS COLUMN, ADMIRALS CREST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 38941 94731
Details
SK39SE ROTHERHAM ADMIRALS CREST (north side), 4/5 Thorpe Common Keppels Column - II* Monument. 1773-80. By John Carr for Charles Wentworth, 2nd Marquis of Rockingham who repeatedly altered the original scheme. Ashlar sandstone plinth, base and abacus; dressed wallstone shaft. Massive Tuscan column approximately 35 metres in height. Doorway in east side of plinth now concreted up. 5 round-headed windows set in vertical line on 3 sides of shaft, 6 windows on side opposite door; lower- most windows walled-up. Pronounced entasis realigned towards top. Large rectangular viewing platform with damaged iron balustrade. Originally intended as a landscape feature composed of pedestal surmounted by obelisk the design was eventually changed to a tall column. The intended height was not achieved which accounts for the modification of entasis. Commemorates the honourable acquittal of Admiral Keppel following his court-martial after failing to engage the French off Brest in 1778. Important landscape feature of the original Wentworth Estate, notable local landmark. R. B. Wragg, 'Four Monuments at Wentworth', Trans. Ancient Monuments Society, vol 23, 1978.
Listing NGR: SK3894194731
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335636
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society in Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, Vol. 23, (1978)
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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