Walls To Court East And North Eat Of Oldway Mansion, Including Pair Of Sphinxes

PAIGNTON

SX8861 TORQUAY ROAD 1947-1/4/104 (West side) Walls to court E and NE of Oldway Mansion, including pair of sphinxes

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Courtyard walls to court E and NE of Oldway Mansion, incorporating pair of sphinxes flanking entrance to terraced garden east of the house. c1904-1907, probably contemporary with the remodelling of Oldway Mansion (qv), for Paris Singer. Grounds laid out by A Duchesne, a leading French formal landscape architect. Concrete, the sphinxes with a hardcore core. The walls bound the eastern part of an oval courtyard with entrances on the north and east sides and an entrance to the gardens on the south side. Concrete walls with plain coping and balustraded bays; bulbous balusters to the gardens and curved sections, ovoid balusters to the straight sections. Large concrete sphinxes flank the entrance to the gardens. Part of the setting of Oldway Mansion (qv) which has a number of garden items contemporary with the early C20 recasting of the house. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: 839-40).

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