Eyecatcher at SP 4828 2603
EYECATCHER AT SP 4828 2603
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1357142
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Eyecatcher at SP 4828 2603
- Statutory Address:
- EYECATCHER AT SP 4828 2603
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1357142
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Eyecatcher at SP 4828 2603
- Statutory Address 1:
- EYECATCHER AT SP 4828 2603
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:
- EYECATCHER AT SP 4828 2603
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Steeple Aston
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 48280 26030
Details
STEEPLE ASTON SP42NE 2/98 Eyecatcher at SP 4828 2603 08/12/55 - II*
Eyecatcher. c.1740 by William Kent. Naristone rubble with squared dressings. A folly in the form of a high wall, the top of which rises over 3 graduated arched openings and is ornamented with 11 rubble pinnacles. The front has shallow buttresses, and there are large raking buttresses to rear. The Eyecatcher stands on the skyline of the principal view from Ronsham Park, and forms an important feature of Kent's landscape design, It is one of the earliest examples of a sham ruin. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p29; buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p745; M. Jourdain, The Work of William Kent, 1948, p81.)
Listing NGR: SP4828026030
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422387
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jourdain, M, The Work of William Kent, (1948), 81
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 29
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 745
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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