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Latitude: 53.6067 / 53°36'24"N
Longitude: -1.5789 / 1°34'44"W
OS Eastings: 427960
OS Northings: 412325
OS Grid: SE279123
Mapcode National: GBR KVDQ.ZT
Mapcode Global: WHCBB.QLBV
Plus Code: 9C5WJC4C+MC
Entry Name: Grotto at Bretton Hall
Listing Date: 9 March 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1119663
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469134
ID on this website: 101119663
Location: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75
County: Barnsley
Civil Parish: High Hoyland
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Woolley St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Building Shell grotto
SE 21 SE
1491/1/10003
HIGH HOYLAND
PARK LANE (South, off)
Grotto at Bretton Hall
II
Grotto. c1780. Rough dressed stone. Irregular circular plan with central roughly pointed archway and flanking roughly arched windows. INTERIOR has rough stone vault remnants of shell-work decoration culminating in a central pendant. This building forms an important element in the landscape garden which surrounds Bretton Hall and which was built for the Wentworth family.
Listing NGR: SE2796012325
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