Bone Cave Entrance
BONE CAVE ENTRANCE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1320655
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Bone Cave Entrance
- Statutory Address:
- BONE CAVE ENTRANCE
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- Date:
- 2001-09-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/05435/30
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1320655
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Bone Cave Entrance
- Statutory Address 1:
- BONE CAVE ENTRANCE
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:
- BONE CAVE ENTRANCE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Banwell
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 38204 58812
Details
ST 35 NE BANWELL BANWELL HILL
4/2 Bone Cave entrance
G.V. II
Picturesque garden feature. Early C19. Unworked stone, brick grotto and high walled path leading to arched and decorated entrance to cave. A part retaining wall of random rubble pierced by 2 low pointed arches to right, 1 larger raised above wall height to left; wall pierced with small round headed niches at regular intervals; behind 2 arches to right is a semicircular grotto with 5 plastered niches and a flat brick ceiling; a tooled stone, lozenge shaped table stands in the centre on a random rubble upright; a pyramidal cap surmounts the grotto entrance, a small marble plaque bears the text: "Here, where once druids trod in time of yore/And stain'd their altars with a victim's gore/ Here now the christian ransom'd from above/Adores a god of mercy and of love.' Behind arch to left a path between 1.5 metre walls swings right, a large niche on each side, to round arched entrance; within, a final stone arch bears a (barely legible) plaque with the legend -/B/R/1804; below the arch is an arched pair of whale bones. One of an extensive set of picturesque estate features erected by the antiquarian Bishop Law of Bath and Wells on his Banwell estate.
Listing NGR: ST3820458812
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 33340
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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