Parterre Walls In Garden To South Of Longford Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1985. Garden walls.
Parterre Walls In Garden To South Of Longford Castle
- WRENN ID
- vacant-sill-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1985
- Type
- Garden walls
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SU 12 NE ODSTOCK LONGFORD PARK
5/142 Parterre walls in garden to south of Longford Castle (q.v.)
GV II
Parterre walls. 1832. Buff brick with stone coping and ball finials. Dwarf walls with open parapet, weathered coping and ball finials, enclose rectangular garden with oval south end, about 100 metres long. Part of reorganisation of south gardens by 3rd Earl of Radnor in 1832, many pieces of sculpture from C18 gardens were collected into the area of the parterre at this time, such as Rysbrack's Fame (q.v.) and six mythological terms by Sefferin Alkin c1759. (R. Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculpture, 1964 p16 J. Cornforth, Country Life Annual 1968 p37 Unpublished records of RCHM (England), Salisbury).
Listing NGR: SU1710226607
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