Garendon Park, The Triumphal Arch is a Grade I listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1965. A 1730s Triumphal arch. 1 related planning application.
Garendon Park, The Triumphal Arch
- WRENN ID
- under-cornice-fen
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1965
- Type
- Triumphal arch
- Period
- 1730s
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SK 4919 ASHBY ROAD 9/11 (north side)
15.3.65 Garendon Park, The Triumphal Arch GV I
Triumphal Arch, of the 1730s, by Ambrose Phillipps of Garendon (d.1737). Of ashlar, with a moulded round-headed carriage arch, the soffit of which has octagonal coffering in stucco on brick. The east front has 4 Corinthian columns on tall pedestals supporting a rich entablature. The attic, crowned by a cornice, has a fine relief of the Metamorphosis of Actalon. The west side has 2 Corinthian columns on pedestals with a pediment over the entablature. Cornice crowning attic. Keystone to arch in form of a head. The interior of the arch has some tiny rooms. Based on the Arch of Titus in Rome, the Triumphal Arch at Garendon is a very early (perhaps the earliest) example of an English building inspired directly from an Ancient Roman source, archaeologically interpreted. Mark Aironard, "Ambrose Phillipps of Garendon'", Architectural History, 1965.
Listing NGR: SK4949919075
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