Captain Cooks Monument The Shell Bridge is a Grade I listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1966. Monument.
Captain Cooks Monument The Shell Bridge
- WRENN ID
- white-casement-cobweb
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1966
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Captain Cooks Monument The Shell Bridge, Stowe
- OS grid reference
- SP 677 373
- Coordinates
- 52.03033, -1.01398
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Shell Bridge and Captain Cook's Monument, located in the Elysian Fields at Stowe School, is a significant structure built around 1740 by architect William Kent. The bridge is designed to resemble a low dam and features stone dressings with rendering that is encrusted with shells. It consists of five bays with low arches, where the central bay projects and is topped with a pediment, flanked by two smaller pediments above the piers on either side. Atop the bridge stands Captain Cook's Monument, a small structure that includes a portrait medallion dated 1778.
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