Statue of Meleager and Pedestal
STATUE OF MELEAGER AND PEDESTAL, TERRACE WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1316059
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Statue of Meleager and Pedestal
- Statutory Address:
- STATUE OF MELEAGER AND PEDESTAL, TERRACE WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1316059
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Statue of Meleager and Pedestal
- Statutory Address 1:
- STATUE OF MELEAGER AND PEDESTAL, TERRACE WALK
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:
- STATUE OF MELEAGER AND PEDESTAL, TERRACE WALK
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 71982 69994
Details
HENDERSKELFE TERRACE WALK SE 7169 (south side) Castle Howard 12/80 Statue of Meleager and pedestal (formerly listed 25.1.54 under "Castle Howard with Outbuildings to east and garden statues") GV II* Statue of Meleager and the pedestal on which it stands. c1720. Sandstone pedestal, lead statue. Plinth 2.25 metres high, statue life size. 2 steps up to pedestal with cavetto-moulded base, sunk panels bearing garlands carved in relief and egg-and-dart cornice. Statue of Meleager, a naked young man with a short cloak around his neck, with a dog, leaning on a tree stump. Copied from a Roman copy of a Hellenistic original of the mid C4 BC, now in the Vatican Museum, Rome. Haskell F and Penny N, Taste and the Antique, 1981. HBMC, Register of Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England, Part 32, North Yorkshire: Castle Howard, Grade I.
Listing NGR: SE7186170024
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 329036
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Haskell, F, Penny, N, Taste and the Antique, (1981)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 32 North 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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