Statue Of Neptune

SP 61 NE WOTTON UNDERWOOD WOTTON HOUSE

3/175 Statue of Neptune

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Part of a statue thought originally to have formed part of a group placed between 1771 and 1789. Carved stone. Apparently part of a composition representing a boy on a dolphin, perhaps Arion or Palaemon, the surviving section consists of a dolphin with a clump of bullrushes behind, a stump of a palm tree, and a foot. The List entry written in 1985 noted that other fragments of the figure of Neptune were on site or at Wotton House, but it is not now known what these may have been.

The historic designed landscape surrounding an early-C18 country house, with a contemporary layout, probably by George London and Henry Wise, developed into an extensive mid-C18 park for George Grenville by Lancelot Brown; William Pitt, later first Earl of Chatham, is credited with significant input with regard to the design.

Listing NGR: SP6776216940

The List entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 10 August 2016 as part of the tercentenary of Lancelot Capability Brown's birth.