Water Terrace Gardens, Bernini Fountain On West Terrace is a Grade I listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1957. A C17 Fountain.
Water Terrace Gardens, Bernini Fountain On West Terrace
- WRENN ID
- moated-sandstone-saffron
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1957
- Type
- Fountain
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BLENHEIM SP41NW 2/39 Water Terrace Gardens, Bernini 27/08/57 Fountain on West Terrace (Formerly listed as Bernini Fountain) GV I Fountain. Late C17, restored 1932. Marble and limestone. Four figures, depicting the rivers Nile, Ganges, Plata, and Danube or Tiber, arranged on rocky plinth surrounding obelisk. Small-scale version of fountain by Bernini at the Piazza Navona in Rome and given to the Duke of Marlborough in 1710 by the Spanish ambassador to the Papal Court in Rome. Restored in 1932 and sited in the lower Water Terrace Gardens made by Achille Duchene for the Ninth Duke, 1925-30. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p475; National Monuments Record; D. Green: "The Bernini Fountain at Blenheim"; Country Life, Vol 110 (1951), pp268-9; Blenheim Park is included in the HBMC Register of Parks and Gardensx at Grade I)
Listing NGR: SP4398216000
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