PEDESTAL APPROXIMATELY 90 METRES SOUTH OF ATLAS FOUNTAIN

PEDESTAL APPROXIMATELY 90 METRES SOUTH OF ATLAS FOUNTAIN, SOUTH PARTERRE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1316055
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:: PEDESTAL APPROXIMATELY 90 METRES SOUTH OF ATLAS FOUNTAIN
Statutory Address:: PEDESTAL APPROXIMATELY 90 METRES SOUTH OF ATLAS FOUNTAIN, SOUTH PARTERRE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1316055
Date first listed:: 25-Jan-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: PEDESTAL APPROXIMATELY 90 METRES SOUTH OF ATLAS FOUNTAIN
Statutory Address 1:: PEDESTAL APPROXIMATELY 90 METRES SOUTH OF ATLAS FOUNTAIN, SOUTH PARTERRE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: PEDESTAL APPROXIMATELY 90 METRES SOUTH OF ATLAS FOUNTAIN, SOUTH PARTERRE

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Henderskelfe
National Grid Reference:: SE 71649 69833

Details

HENDERSKELFE SOUTH PARTERRE SE 7169 Castle Howard 12/61 Pedestal approximately 90 metres south of Atlas 25.1.54 Fountain (formerly listed under "Castle Howard with Outbuilding to east and garden statues") GV II* The pedestal on which statue of Dancing Faun formerly stood. c1720, probably by Nicholas Hawksmoor. Sandstone pedestal, 2.5 metres in height. Square 3-course base to drum pedestal with moulded base and cornice, and festoons. Feet of statue and iron bar which formerly held it in place still in place. Statue lies on grass to north and represents a dancing faun with cymbals. Copied from a C3 copy of a bronze original, now in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Haskell F and Penny N, Taste and the Antique, 1981, p 205. Hussey C, English Gardens and Landscapes 1700-1750, 1967. HBMC, Register of Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England, Part 32, North Yorkshire: Castle Howard, Grade I.

Listing NGR: SE7164969833

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Legacy System number:: 329017
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Haskell, F, Penny, N , Taste and the Antique, (1981), 205
Hussey, C, English Gardens and Landscapes 1700-1750, (1967)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 32 North Yorkshire,

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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.