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
Source: Historic England listing

Description

SP 6737 STOWE

9/70 STOWE SCHOOL The Shell Bridge and Captain Cook's Monument

13.7.66 GV I

A dam in the Elysian Fields, disguised as a low bridge. c1740 by Kent. Stone dressings, rendering encrusted with shells. Five bays with low arches, central bay projecting and pedimented, 2 smaller pediments each side above piers. Captain Cook's Monument, standing on the bridge, is a small monument with portrait medallion dated 1778.

Listing NGR: SP6773937341

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