Needles Eye is a Grade II* listed building in the Rotherham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1968. Folly. 1 related planning application.
Needles Eye
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-frieze-torch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Rotherham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1968
- Type
- Folly
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SOUTH YORKSHIRE ROTHERHAM 5097
SK39NE BRAMPTON BIERLOW COALEY LANE SK39629883 (west side, off)
4/1 Needle's Eye (formerly listed 29.3.68 under North Avenue, Wentworth)
II*
Folly. Mid-late C18. Attributed to John Carr (Wragg; Jones, p90) but clearly shown on an engraving of c1730. For the Wentworth estate. Ashlar sandstone. Tall, square pyramid pierced, on the axis of a former avenue to Wentworth Park North Lodge (q.v.), by a narrow, ogee carriage arch. Plinth, impost band, moulded voussoirs (partly renewed). At apex a square plinth to an elaborate vase entwined with foliage.
Engraving in York Minster Library, Topographical Prints, Wentworth.
Lyle Publications, Monumental Follies, 1972, p235 (photograph).
B. Jones, Follies and Grottoes, 1974 ed., pp85-86 and p90.
R. B. Wragg, 'The Life and Works of John Carr of York: Palladian Architect' unpublished thesis, 1975, University of Sheffield, vol. 3, appendix A, unpaginated.
Listing NGR: SK3962298821
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