Circular Pool With Lining and Statue at Centre of Garden to South Front of Wortley Hall
CIRCULAR POOL WITH LINING AND STATUE AT CENTRE OF GARDEN TO SOUTH FRONT OF WORTLEY HALL, WORTLEY PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315069
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Circular Pool With Lining and Statue at Centre of Garden to South Front of Wortley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- CIRCULAR POOL WITH LINING AND STATUE AT CENTRE OF GARDEN TO SOUTH FRONT OF WORTLEY HALL, WORTLEY PARK
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- Date:
- 2002-07-12
- Reference:
- IOE01/05438/09
- Rights:
- © Paul Eggleston. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315069
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Circular Pool With Lining and Statue at Centre of Garden to South Front of Wortley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CIRCULAR POOL WITH LINING AND STATUE AT CENTRE OF GARDEN TO SOUTH FRONT OF WORTLEY HALL, WORTLEY PARK
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.
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:
- CIRCULAR POOL WITH LINING AND STATUE AT CENTRE OF GARDEN TO SOUTH FRONT OF WORTLEY HALL, WORTLEY PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Wortley
- National Grid Reference:
- SK3126999442
Details
SK39NW
4/134
WORTLEY
WORTLEY PARK
Circular pool with lining and statue at centre of garden to south front of Wortley Hall
GV
II
Circular pool with lining and statue. Probably early C19, for the Wortley Hall
estate. Ashlar sandstone. Circular rim with moulded segmental copings at footpath
level; circular central pedestal with torus moulded base surmounted by male figure
seated on 3 entwined dolphins, his arms now broken. Lady Caroline Creighton, wife
of James Archibald Stuart Wortley, is credited with the surviving early C19 landscape
scheme seen at Wortley Hall.
Wortley Hall, Labour's Home - 25 Years Souvenir, booklet p.17.
Listing NGR: SK3126999442
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334010
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Wortley Hall Labours Home 25 Years Souvenir Booklet,
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 37 South Yorkshire,
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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