Obelisk, Urns And Seat Approximately 100 Metres To South West Of Penn House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1991. Monument.
Obelisk, Urns And Seat Approximately 100 Metres To South West Of Penn House
- WRENN ID
- idle-spindle-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1991
- Type
- Monument
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The following items shall be added:-
PENN PENN STREET SU 99 SW (south side off)
3/80 Obelisk, urns and II seat approximately 1OO m to south-west of Penn House
Monument. Between 1733 and 1744; for Alexander Pope in memory of his mother; urns ascribed to William Kent. Ashlar; obelisk of stone slabs. The obelisk and 2 urns are set at the 3 points of a triangle, with a low stone curved bench on brick piers between the urns. The tall obelisk and urns each have a stepped base and a plinth with moulded base and cornice. The urns have a spiral pattern and conical finials.
Pope erected the monument at his house in Twickenham (Popes Villa) in memory of his mother who died in 1733. It was brought from Twickenham to its present location c1830.
M Mack, Alexander Pope (1985), p 548. R Strong, Lost Treasures of Britain, forthcoming.
Listing NGR: SU9234694825
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