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Latitude: 50.346 / 50°20'45"N
Longitude: -4.1733 / 4°10'23"W
OS Eastings: 245465
OS Northings: 51826
OS Grid: SX454518
Mapcode National: GBR NV.WMVB
Mapcode Global: FRA 2844.3YQ
Plus Code: 9C2Q8RWG+CM
Entry Name: Picklecombe Seat
Listing Date: 23 January 1968
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1140628
English Heritage Legacy ID: 61882
ID on this website: 101140628
Location: Mount Edgcumbe Country Park, Cornwall, PL10
County: Cornwall
Civil Parish: Maker-with-Rame
Traditional County: Cornwall
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Church of England Parish: Maker
Church of England Diocese: Truro
Tagged with: Architectural structure
SX 45 SE MAKER-WITH-RAME MOUNT EDGCUMBE COUNTRY PARK
7/226 Picklecombe Seat
23.1.68
GV II
Garden feature in the form of an alcove temple. Late C18, incorporating earlier
features. Slatestone and granite rubble with granite arch and limestone dressings.
Rectangular plan with 5 granite steps leading to open front. Gothick style.
Central tall elliptical arch flanked by aedicules, each with pair of engaged shafts;
pediment over the shafts with trefoils along head and cusped tympanum. Rubble sides
and rear.
Interior Cobbled floor. Ridged granite vault with one wide convex-moulded rib to
rear. Rear wall has imitation piscina/niche, with engaged shafts to right and left,
trefoil head with crocketted gable moulding over, in limestone; quatrefoil sink
inside niche, and rectangular recess to rear.
Rev. Shaw, in Early Tours of Devon and Cornwall, 1788: "Winding beautifully round we
came next to a gothic alcove built from the materials of an old chapel the inside of
which gives a picturesque view of nothing but the sea...".
Listing NGR: SX4546551826
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