Columns Cave Adjoining Number 14A To East is a Grade II listed building in the Nottingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1995. Cave.
Columns Cave Adjoining Number 14A To East
- WRENN ID
- ghost-stair-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Nottingham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1995
- Type
- Cave
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NOTTINGHAM
SK5639NE PARK TERRACE 646-1/19/477 (North East side) Columns cave adjoining No.14A to east (not included)
GV II
Man-made ornamental cave. c1870. Made for Alderman Thomas Herbert. Rectangular cave approx 13m x 7m, and 3m high, open at the west end. The roof is carried on 3 rows of 6 square rock columns with relief panels and capitals. One column replaced in brick. The walls are divided by similar half-columns, and between them, bas relief figures and crucifixes. The existing cave is under Park Terrace. An adjoining cave to the east was filled in during 1976. This cave and others nearby were built as garden features in the grounds of Herbert's house in the Ropewalk (not included). Overlying buildings are not of special interest. (Reprint from The Mercian Geologist, Vol. 13, Sept. 1992: Waltham AC: The sandstone caves of Nottingham: Nottingham: 1992-: 15-16).
Listing NGR: SK5656639892
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