TOWER AT NGR SJ 41066 34863

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ELLESMERE RURAL C.P. OTELEY Tower at N.G.R. SJ 41066 34863

GV II

Tower. Circa 1826 to 1842 for Charles Kynaston Mainwaring. Yellow sandstone ashlar with red sandstone dressings; machine tile broached spire with richly ornamented wrought-iron weathervane. Venetian style. Rectangular section to bottom stage has decorative gable above cusped 2- light window with bracketed stone balcony beneath to south side. Pointed doorway to east side. Corbelled stone balcony with pierced trefoils to balustrade all round above 2-light window, supports upper stage which has gabled octagonal top with narrow pointed windows to cardinal faces; stepped chamfered projections to sides between. 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)p p. 106-7 ; Francis Leach, The Country Seats of Shropshire (1891), pp.19-23; Mrs. Frances Stackhouse Acton, Castles and Did Mansions of Shropshire (1868), p.58.

Listing NGR: SJ4107034865