Bear Pit Approximately 40 Metres To West North West Of Camellia House is a Grade II listed building in the Rotherham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1985. Garden feature.
Bear Pit Approximately 40 Metres To West North West Of Camellia House
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-lime-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rotherham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1985
- Type
- Garden feature
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SK39NE WENTWORTH WENTWORTH WOODHOUSE SK39059773
4/124 Bear Pit approximately 40 metres to west-north-west of Camellia House.
GV II
Garden feature. C18 re-using doorway of c1630. For the Wentworth Estate. c1630 doorway of limestone; upper entrance of ashlar sandstone; rubble sandstone interior with brick vault. Set beneath overgrown earth mound. Grotto-style entrance to curved tunnel which leads to vaulted chamber, internal steps rise to landing and upper entrance. c1630 doorway: in Jacobean style with extravagantly-carved ornament to piers, frieze and scrolled pedment; cartouche finial. Upper doorway: shouldered lintel with cast-iron plaque.
Interior : subterranean circular room. Rebated ashlar surround to round- arched tunnel doorway; small flanking doorways to two vaulted cells. Stone steps with iron rail. Domical roof. Plaque over upper doorway reads :
"There is a healing in the garden When one longs for peace and pardon Once past the gate no need to wait For God is in the garden."
Listing NGR: SK3905097720
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