Mount Snever Observatory

SE 58 SW 8/46

OLDSTEAD MOUNT SNEVER Mount Snever Observatory

II

Observatory. 1838. J. Dodd builder for John Wormald. Limestone ashlar. Single cell with platform to front. c35ft in height. 9-course coped wall, with evidence for former staircase at right, to platform. Board door beneath massive stone lintel flanked by crude buttresses. Inscription above reads:

Here hills and waving groves a scene display And part admit and part exclude the day See rich industry smiling on the plains And peace and plenty tell VICTORIA reigns! Happy the MAN who to these shades retires Whom NATURE charms and whom the muse inspires Who wandering thoughtful in this silent wood Attends the duties of the wise and good To observe a mean, be to himself a friend To follow NATURE and regard his end.

3-light fixed window above the evidence for blocking of former tall single- light window. Wooden parapet. Coped angle turrets. Inscription to rear facade: John Wormald In the first year of the reign of Queen Victoria Caused this observatory to be erected J Dodds Builder

Disused at time of resurvey.

Listing NGR: SE5371480465