Two Pairs Of Cherubs To North West Of The Grand Basin In Melbourne Hall Gardens

SK 38/3925 PARISH OF MELBOURNE CHURCH CLOSE 6/74 (East Side) 10.11.67 Two Pairs of Cherubs to North-West of the Grand Basin in Melbourne Hall Gardens (formerly listed as 'Pair of pedestals with fighting cupids on north side of garden, Melbourne Hall') GV I Two pairs of cherubs. c1700 by Jan van Nost. Erected as part of a French style garden, designed by Royal Gardeners to Queen Anne, London and Wise, for Thomas Coke of Melbourne Hall. Stone and lead. Each pair of cherubs stand on a panelled stone pedestal with moulded base and cornice. To the western pair, one cherub is snatching a bunch of lilies from the other and to the eastern pair the cherubs are quarrelling. These form a group with two pairs of cherubs on the opposite side of the Basin and tell the tale of Castor and his brother Pollux fighting over a bunch of flowers and their eventual reconciliation. Included in the Derbyshire Historic Gardens Register at Grade I. See item 6/63 for sources.

Listing NGR: SK3914125032