Upper Cascade Including Statues Of Venus And Swans In Venus' Vale is a Grade II* listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1957. A Georgian Landscape feature.
Upper Cascade Including Statues Of Venus And Swans In Venus' Vale
- WRENN ID
- western-frieze-grove
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1957
- Type
- Landscape feature
- Period
- Georgian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ROUSHAM ROUSHAM PARK GARDENS SP4724 14/228 Upper Cascade including 27/08/57 statues of Venus and Swans in Venus' Vale (Formerly listed under Lower and Upper Cascades in Venus' Vale including statue of Mercury and the ......) GV II* Cascade. c.1738-40, by William Kent. Coursed and dressed limestone, with rock-faced rustication. Pedimented shape, with arch to cascade, surmounted by lead statue of Venus and flanked by lead swans on moulded drums. Keystone to arch is a marble memorial stone to Ringwood "an otter of extraordinary saqacity" and "Tyrant of the Cherwell's Flood". Part of the landscape gardens laid out by William Kent c.1733-40. (Rousham Park is included in the H.B.M.C. Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade I; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p745)
Listing NGR: SP4770824460
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