FIGURES OF MALE AND FEMALE GARDENERS, IN COURTYARD, AT ANGLESEY ABBEY

FIGURES OF MALE AND FEMALE GARDENERS, IN COURTYARD, AT ANGLESEY ABBEY, QUY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1331462
Date first listed:: 15-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: FIGURES OF MALE AND FEMALE GARDENERS, IN COURTYARD, AT ANGLESEY ABBEY
Statutory Address:: FIGURES OF MALE AND FEMALE GARDENERS, IN COURTYARD, AT ANGLESEY ABBEY, QUY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1331462
Date first listed:: 15-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: FIGURES OF MALE AND FEMALE GARDENERS, IN COURTYARD, AT ANGLESEY ABBEY
Statutory Address 1:: FIGURES OF MALE AND FEMALE GARDENERS, IN COURTYARD, AT ANGLESEY ABBEY, QUY ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FIGURES OF MALE AND FEMALE GARDENERS, IN COURTYARD, AT ANGLESEY ABBEY, QUY ROAD

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Lode
National Grid Reference:: TL5299362256

Details

TL 5262 9/104

LODE QUY ROAD (North Side) Figures of male and female Gardeners, in Courtyard, at Anglesey Abbey

GV II

Two statues. c1750 cast from originals by John Cheere. Lead. Representing male and female gardeners. Formerly at Copped Hall, Essex. (J Kenworthy-Browne, unpublished survey report for National Trust, East Anglia Regional Office (1980)). The same two figures are referred to as a Shepherd and Shepherdess in the R.C.H.M. (North East Cambs.), p80, mon (3) and Lanning-Roper: Gardens of Anglesey Abbey, (1964)

Listing NGR: TL5299362256

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 49359
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Roper, L, Gardens of Anglesey Abbey, (1964)
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire North East, (1972)
Kenworthy Browne, J , Anglesey Abbey Survey Report,
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 5 Cambridgeshire,

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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.