Description

SO 81 SE UPTON ST LEONARDS CUD HILL
at NGR SO 857125

6/198 Gazebo and Blow family memorials

II

Incomplete gazebo; 2 memorial ledger stones to east. 1914-1939.
By Detmar Blow for himself. Random rubble limestone; ashlar
dressings. Square with single round-arched opening to each side
except east; chamfered plinth; 2 slit vents with projecting stone
slate sills on east side.
Interior appears to have been intended to receive a stone groin
vault but only wall arches completed; shelf projects from east
wall. Two memorial ledger stones clOm to east, in field: first
inscribed 'DETMAR BLOW/AND/WINIFRED/HIS WIFE'; second inscribed
"Richard Purcell/BLOW/Elder son of Detmar/and Winifred Blow/1915-
1963". Lettering on first memorial probably by Eric Gill (cf Blow
memorial in Church of St Swithin, Brookthorpe CP, q.v.). Fine
views across Vale of Gloucester. Sited along ridge of escarpment
from Hilles House, Harescombe CP (q.v.), Detmar Blow's house.

Listing NGR: SO8579012526

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26448176

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)