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
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Statue
- OS grid reference
- TL 123 131
- Coordinates
- 51.80532, -0.37218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The statue group in the circular garden, located 200 metres west of Rothamsted Manor House, is a garden statue created in 1908 by Sir Charles Lawes-Wittewronge, the then owner of Rothamsted Manor. This monumental group sculpture, inspired by the Farnese Bull, is designed in a Hellenistic style and made of white marble. Titled "The Death of Dirce," it stands approximately 5 metres high on an oval plinth that is about one and a half metres tall and features a moulded base. The sculpture depicts three figures engaged in a dramatic struggle with a bull, with their names inscribed in Greek on a rocky base scattered with armour. Dirke is portrayed as a semi-nude captive on the back of the bull, while Zithos attacks the bull with a hooked pike and Amphion wrestles with it from below using a rope. The statue was exhibited in Rome in 1911.
Local climate
Statue Group in Circular Garden 200 Metres West of Rothamsted Manor House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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