Statue of Hercules and Antaesis on West Side of North Lawn at the Bury at Grid Reference Tl 1877 2176 is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1968. A C17 Statue.

Statue of Hercules and Antaesis on West Side of North Lawn at the Bury at Grid Reference Tl 1877 2176

WRENN ID
quiet-plaster-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 May 1968
Type
Statue
Address
Statue of Hercules and Antaesis on West Side of North Lawn at the Bury at Grid Reference Tl 1877 2176, St. Paul's Walden
OS grid reference
TL 187 217
Coordinates
51.88177, -0.27585
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The statue of Hercules and Antaesis is located on the west side of the north lawn at The Bury, dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It is an English work attributed to John Nost, who died in 1729, and is based on an original by Giambologna, who lived from 1529 to 1608. The statue is made of limestone and stands on a plinth of Totternhoe stone. It depicts two life-size wrestling figures standing astride a tree stump. The plinth is square and panelled, approximately 1.5 meters high, featuring a boldly moulded base and a cyma moulding on a single large panel on each face. There is necking below the moulded top cornice. This statue is one of a pair and was part of the original design of the garden layout from the 1720s.

Local climate

Statue of Hercules and Antaesis on West Side of North Lawn at the Bury at Grid Reference Tl 1877 2176 sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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