Description

BARWICK IN ELMET AND SCHOLES BRAMHAM PARK
SE44SW LS23
SE406411-SE404416
Retaining wall to
8/19 South Terrace and
eastern part of
garden terminating at
the Four Faces Avenue

GV II

Retaining wall to the South Terrace and the eastern part of the garden to
Bramham Park. c1727-28 possibly to designs by John Wood the Elder for
Robert Benson. Roughly-dressed sandstone. Long stone wall 10 courses high
with buttressed piers at regular intervals and a semicircular projection to
the centre of the terrace just beyond the end of the T-shaped canal (q.v.).
Attached to west end wall turns north on an irregular line supporting the
garden walks.

Part of an important early C18 landscaped garden after Le Notre clearly
illustrated (aerial photograph) in G. Lane Fox, Bramham Park (guide-book 1985),
cover. Mentioned in English Heritage, Register of Parks and Gardens, Grade I

Listing NGR: SE4061341155

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17530475

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014