Latitude: 53.4916 / 53°29'29"N
Longitude: -1.5299 / 1°31'47"W
OS Eastings: 431289
OS Northings: 399539
OS Grid: SK312995
Mapcode National: GBR KXR2.L2
Mapcode Global: WHCBY.GHQL
Plus Code: 9C5WFFRC+M3
Entry Name: Balustraded Retaining Wall Across East Front of Wortley Hall
Listing Date: 4 December 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1151016
English Heritage Legacy ID: 334008
ID on this website: 101151016
Location: Wortley, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S35
County: Barnsley
Civil Parish: Wortley
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): South Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Wortley St Leonard
Church of England Diocese: Sheffield
Tagged with: Balustrade
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WORTLEY
WORTLEY PARK
Balustraded retaining wall across east front of Wortley Hall
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II
Balustraded retaining wall. Probably early C19 for the Wortley Hall estate.
Rock-faced sandstone retaining wall, otherwise ashlar. 18 bays of balustrading
set between intermediate and end dies; steps and detached pier at north end,
balustrade returns to enclose 3 sides of recess at south end of terrace. End and
alternate dies each have moulded plinth, sunken panels and cornice; end dies and
freestanding pier are surmounted by vases with fluted covers and foliage-carved
knops, others with ball finials. Plain intermediate dies linked by panels of turned
balusters on moulded plinth and with corniced copings. Massive console bracket
supports northern end pier. Return bays at south end of terrace are blind.
Lady Caroline Creighton, wife of James Archibold Stuart Wortley, is credited with
the surviving early C19 landscape scheme seen at Wortley Hall.
Wortley Hall, Labour's Home - 25 Years Souvenir, booklet p17.
Listing NGR: SK3128999539
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