Group Of Garden Ornaments In Fern Dell is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1987. Garden ornament collection.
Group Of Garden Ornaments In Fern Dell
- WRENN ID
- deep-string-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1987
- Type
- Garden ornament collection
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SX 45 SE MAKER-WITH-RAME MOUNT EDGCUMBE COUNTRY PARK
7/201 Group of Garden Ornaments in Fern Dell
GV II
Garden ornaments. Probably mid-C19 but re-using some older pieces. Stone. 1. Pedestal with cornice and moulded plinth. 2. Two elliptical stone benches with shaped ends. 3. Round arched sandstone fountain with granite keystone, grotesque mask and granite base. 4. Roman-style acanthus leaf capital. 5. Moulded plinth with pedimented cap. 6. Pair of Roman funerary urns with scrolled pediment caps and Latin inscription. An unusual collection of mainly neo-classical ornaments arranged in a romantic Victorian fernery as a pets' cemetery. This was the original burying place of Cupid, the pet pig which belonged to Emma, Countess of Mount Edgcumbe.
Listing NGR: SX4551453104
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