NOS 65 AND 66 (THE ARCHWAY) WITH FLANKING WALLS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1318805
Date first listed:: 06-Jan-1966
List Entry Name:: NOS 65 AND 66 (THE ARCHWAY) WITH FLANKING WALLS
Statutory Address:: NOS 65 AND 66 (THE ARCHWAY) WITH FLANKING WALLS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1318805
Date first listed:: 06-Jan-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: NOS 65 AND 66 (THE ARCHWAY) WITH FLANKING WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: NOS 65 AND 66 (THE ARCHWAY) WITH FLANKING WALLS

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:: NOS 65 AND 66 (THE ARCHWAY) WITH FLANKING WALLS

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District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Fonthill Bishop
National Grid Reference:: ST 93325 32707

Details

FONTHILL GIFFORD FONTHILL PARK ST 93 SW (north side)

1/104 Nos 65 and 66 (The Archway) with flanking - walls (formerly listed 6.1.66 as Entrance Gateway to Fonthill Park with pavilions etc)

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Archway with lodges and walls flanking approach to park. About 1756, for Alderman William Beckford and probably by John Vardy, flanking walls c1860 possibly by G Devey. Limestone ashlar with much vermiculated detail the stone of the flanking walls is much redder in colour, slate pitched roof to arch, lead flats to lodges. Classical archway with vermiculated block rustication to pilasters and voussoirs, rocky mask keystone, heavy modillioned cornice and pediment with large urn finials with vermiculated bands. Either side are 2-storey lodges, designed as if single- storey with one large 20-pane sash with thick glazing bars, vermiculated pilasters to balustraded parapet. No 65 has large ashlar stacks and single-storey extension with keyed oculus and large enriched volute against main lodge. No 66 has C20 single-storey extension concealed behind curved wall with balustrade and end pier with urn finials. Six-panelled doors face each other within arch, oculi over. North facing side has similar detail, but blind windows, attached walls with round- arched openings through to rear yard of lodges, large enriched volutes against these walls and on top of lower long flanking walls. Interior of lodges have stone newel stairs to first floor of lodge and archway, No 65 retains good 6-panelled doors, planked doors in round-arched openings to first floor. Flanking walls on north side about 85 metres long and in six stepped sections with short vermiculated pier with urn finial between each section and large end piers with vermiculated bands, modillioned cornices and large urn finial. Photographs from the collection of G Devey in NMR show these under construction. A very fine entrance to Fonthill Park, probably built at the same time as Fonthill Splendens (1756 by Hoare, demolished 1807), and executed by Vardy, after a design by Inigo Jones. (J Lees-Milne, William Beckford, 1976; T Howl and B Earnshaw, Trumpet at a Distant Gate, 1985; R White in R Brown, The Architectural Outsiders, 1985)

Listing NGR: ST9332532707

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Legacy System number:: 320893
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Brown, R, The Architectural Outsiders, (1985)
Milne, J , William Beckford, (1976)
Mowl, T, Earnshaw, B, Trumpet at a Distant Gate The Lodge as Prelude to the Country House, (1985)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 46 Wiltshire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.