Garden Seat Next To River Cherwell, And Garden Walls, Doorways And Gateway To East Of Rousham Park

ROUSHAM ROUSHAM PARK GARDENS SP4724, SP42SE 14/240, 4/240 Garden Seat next to River 27/08/57 Cherwell, and garden walls, doorways and gateway to E of Rousham House (Formerly listed under..... Garden wall with wrought-iron gate to north of house) GV II* Garden seat. c.1733-40. By William Kent. Limestone ashlar and rubble, set against garden wall with six half-columns in recesses. Limestone rubble wall of approximately 30 metres attached to 3 kitchen garden walls, dating from late C17 to early C19. Of coursed limestone and approximately 30 x 40 metres to north-east. Similar wall with inner wall of Flemish bond brick with flared headers, approximately 100 x 55 metres, to west: semi-circular stone arch over mid C18 wrought-iron gateway to west and C17 pointed chamfered doorway to east. Similar C17 square-headed doorway to churchyard in walls approximately 30 x 90 metres and with Dovecote (q.v.) to south-west. Part of the landscape gardens later laid out by William Kent between 1733 and 1740. (Rousham Park is included in the H,B,M.C, Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade I; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p746)

Listing NGR: SP4801824236