Urn Approximately 15 Metres South Of Tower

ELLESMERE RURAL C.P. OTELEY SJ 4034-4134 18/142 Urn approx. 15m south - of tower GV II Urn. Circa 1826 to 1842 for Charles Kynaston Mainwaring. Sandstone. Large urn with foliage decoration and 2 horned ram's heads to sides. Ornamental carving to rim and plumed feather-like decoration to underside; carved plinth. Stands on a mid-C20 tall red brick base (not of special architectural interest). Charles Kynaston Mainwaring was a keen amateur gardener and he travelled extensively on the continent. It is believed that he was personally responsible for much of the design of the garden at Oteley and for the features therein. His house, Oteley Park, built for him in an Elizabethan style on the site of an earlier building between 1826 and 1830 and extended in 1842 was demolished c.1960. B.O.E. p. 226; Peter Reid, Burke's and Savills Guide to Country Houses, Vol. II (1980),pp, 106-7. Francis Leach, The Country Seats of Shropshire (1891), pp.19-23; Mrs. Frances Stackhouse Acton, Castles and Old Mansions of Shropshire (1868), p.58.

Listing NGR: SJ4106934846