The Walled Garden, Walls Portals And Sculpture 5 Metres North East Of Chinese Temple, Chinese Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1987. Garden building.

The Walled Garden, Walls Portals And Sculpture 5 Metres North East Of Chinese Temple, Chinese Garden

WRENN ID
keen-wicket-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Staffordshire Moorlands
Country
England
Date first listed
20 November 1987
Type
Garden building
Source
Historic England listing

Description

BIDDULPH C.P. BIDDULPH GRANGE SJ 85 NE SJ 8927 5914 7/19 The Walled Garden, walls - portals and sculpture 5m north-east of Chinese Temple, Chinese Garden

GV II

Ornamental garden building : walled garden, portals and sculpture. 1848-1860, by John Bateman. Rock-faced coursed stone; chisel dressed to portals. Semi-circular retaining wall of approximately 1Om diameter and 1.5m high. Built against embankment with double-headed Chinese, block-constructed portals at either end. Life-size, painted plaster sculpture of Brahmin Cow placed over wall at centre of semi-circle (shown with canopy cover in Country Life article of 1905); 2 serpent forms are cut into the lawn in front of the retaining wall. Forms part of Chinese Garden perambulation - the rather ridiculous animal forms are typical of Bateman's sense of humour, as seen also in the Tea House (q.v.). The cow was made on the site by the sculptor, Waterhouse Hawkins.

Listing NGR: SJ8927159148

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