Description

PADSTOW PRIDEAUX PLACE, Padstow
SW 9075-9175
8/135 Garden feature at south end of
south terrace of Prideaux Place

GV II*

Garden seat at south end of terrace. 1740 (datestone). By Edmund Prideaux.
Vermiculated and dressed stone ashlar with side walls of rendered brick.
Central garden seat is like a portal flanked by low quadrant walls terminating in
square-on-plan piers. Situated at the south end of a terrace. The garden seat is in
the form of a portal with a vermiculated round arch, imposts, keyblocks and moulded
cornice to its pedimented top. Flanked by low quadrant walls, each with 4 shallow
niches, terminating in a pair of stone rubble rendered piers which have moulded bases
and caps and are surmounted by vase capped urns.
Within the 'portico' is an inscription recording that the marbles, which are
inscriptions and portable shrines of first century AD. were brought back from Rome by
Edmund Prideaux in 1740.

Listing NGR: SW9139075453

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17533197

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)