Bridge Carrying Drive To Compton Verney Over Compton Pool is a Grade II* listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1952. Bridge.
Bridge Carrying Drive To Compton Verney Over Compton Pool
- WRENN ID
- standing-transept-rye
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1952
- Type
- Bridge
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
COMPTON VERNEY
SP35SW COMPTON VERNEY 1901-1/6/65 Bridge carrying drive to Compton 06/02/52 Verney over Compton Pool (Formerly Listed as: COMPTON VERNEY Bridge carrying drive over Compton Pool)
GV II*
Bridge. C18 with C19 parapet. Probably by Robert Adam (or
possibly Lancelot Capability' Brown). Limestone ashlar. 3
segmental arches have archivolts; cutwaters are decayed;
modillioned cornice to balustraded parapet. Piers to ends have
plain round-headed niches and originally served as plinth to
lead sphinxes similar to those on the Adam gateway screen at
Sion. Abutments have plain parapets terminating in ball
finials. An important element in the setting of the house and
inCapability' Brown's landscaping of 1768-74.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner, N & Wedgwood, A:
Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 239; Country Life: Bolton,
AT: Compton Verney, Warwickshire, a seat of Lord Willoughby de
Broke: London: 1913-: 528-35).
Listing NGR: SP3126952894
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