Listed Building: STEPS AND PAIR OF STATUES ON NORTH TERRACE AT BELTON HOUSE (1187976)

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Grade II
Authority Department of the Environment
Date assigned 14 November 1994
Date last amended

Description

BELTON & MANTHORPE SK9239 BELTON PARK, Belton 1315-0/8/100 (North side) Steps and pair of statues on North Terrace at Belton House GV II Steps and pair of statues. Probably late C17. 7 ashlar steps with low balustrade walls, slightly moulded coping and square pedestals. On pedestals at the head of the steps, 2 life-size figures in Classical costume. Pevsner tentatively attributes these figures to C G Cibber, who carved a nearby sundial (qv) for Sir John Brownlow c1685-1700. Marsden & Barber describe them as being Italian, C18. This building appears within Belton Park which is on the Gardens Register at grade I. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J & Antram N: Lincolnshire: London: 1964-1989: 139; Marsden J & Barber A: Belton House: London: 1985-1987: 46). Listing NGR: SK9299239340

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Grid reference SK 92992 39340 (point)
Map sheet SK93NW
Civil Parish BELTON AND MANTHORPE, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Apr 17 2009 4:44PM

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