Lady Damer'S Seat is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1987. Ornamental seat.
Lady Damer'S Seat
- WRENN ID
- third-entrance-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1987
- Type
- Ornamental seat
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SX 45 SE MAKER-WITH-RAME MOUNT EDGCUMBE COUNTRY PARK
7/230 Lady Damer's Seat
GV II
Ornamental seat. Circa 1777. Sandstone on brick foundation. The seat is an ellipse on plan about 5 metres long, faced in sandstone. There is a millstone set in front of the seat for use as a table. Mrs Ann Damer, a relation of Horace Walpole, visited Mount Edgcumbe in 1777, and sometime after that date a small grove was dedicated to her in the Lower Zigzags, embellished with an acrostic poem written by the son of the first earl, Lord Valletort (1765-1839). "David ne'er touched the harp like thee, Anson ne'er saw thy like at sea; Mansfield's no eloquence like thine, Edgcumbe who thinks thee all divine; Records thy name by every line." The Lower Zigzags were the first of the system of formal paths terraced into the hillside and cliffs along the coast, approximately south/south east of Mount Edgcumbe House (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SX4573551708
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