Rockery Approximately 40 Metres South Of Temple Of Flora is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1986. Rockery.
Rockery Approximately 40 Metres South Of Temple Of Flora
- WRENN ID
- watchful-finial-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1986
- Type
- Rockery
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NUNEHAM COURTENAY NUNEHAM PARK SU5498 12/91 Rockery approx. 40m. S of Temple of Flora
GV II
Rockery. c.1771, extended probably early C19. Limestone and composition boulders. Rockery forms one side of the ravine-like path leading past the grotto (q.v.). A large slanting tablet within the rockery, commemorates Walter Clark, "florist", in an inscription by William Whitehead, Poet Laureate. Clark, the gardener who made the flower garden, died in 1784. The grotto formed part of the innovative flower garden designed by the Reverend William Mason, the author of "The English Flower Garden", for Lord Nuneham, afterwards the 2nd Earl Harcourt. Included for group value. (Nuneham Park is included in the HBMC County Register of Gardens at Grade I; M. Batey, Nuneham Courtenay, 1970, p.27).
Listing NGR: SU5421198181
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