Statue Group In Circular Garden 200 Metres West Of Rothamsted Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Statue.
Statue Group In Circular Garden 200 Metres West Of Rothamsted Manor House
- WRENN ID
- mired-loft-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Country
- England
- Type
- Statue
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/01/2013
TL 11 SW 5/87
HARPENDEN RURAL HATCHING GREEN (west side) Statue group in circular garden 200 metres W of Rothamsted Manor House.
GV II
Garden statue. 1908 by Sir Charles Lawes - Wittewronge, then the owner of Rothamsted Manor. Monumental group sculpture based on the Farnese Bull. Hellenistic style. White marble. Entitled the Death of Dirce it stands about 5 metres high with an oval plinth. Three figures are in dramatic struggle with a bull, their names inscribed in Greek on a rocky base strewn with armour. Dirke is a captive semi-nude figure on the back of the bull; Zithos attacks the bull with a hooked pike while Amphion wrestles with it from below with a rope. The plinth is about one and a half metres high and has a moulded base. It was exhibited in Rome in 1911. (Pevsner (1977)).
Listing NGR: TL1233013106
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