Description

SX 45 SE MAKER-WITH-RAME MOUNT EDGCUMBE COUNTRY PARK

7/230 Lady Damer's Seat

GV II

Ornamental seat. Circa 1777. Sandstone on brick foundation. The seat is an ellipse
on plan about 5 metres long, faced in sandstone. There is a millstone set in front
of the seat for use as a table.
Mrs Ann Damer, a relation of Horace Walpole, visited Mount Edgcumbe in 1777, and
sometime after that date a small grove was dedicated to her in the Lower Zigzags,
embellished with an acrostic poem written by the son of the first earl, Lord
Valletort (1765-1839).
"David ne'er touched the harp like thee,
Anson ne'er saw thy like at sea;
Mansfield's no eloquence like thine,
Edgcumbe who thinks thee all divine;
Records thy name by every line."
The Lower Zigzags were the first of the system of formal paths terraced into the
hillside and cliffs along the coast, approximately south/south east of Mount Edgcumbe
House (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SX4573551708

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26433400

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)