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Garden Feature at South End of South Terrace of Prideaux Place

A Grade II* Listed Building in Padstow, Cornwall

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.5416 / 50°32'29"N

Longitude: -4.9455 / 4°56'43"W

OS Eastings: 191390

OS Northings: 75453

OS Grid: SW913754

Mapcode National: GBR ZM.YS7H

Mapcode Global: FRA 07JM.P3T

Plus Code: 9C2QG3R3+JQ

Entry Name: Garden Feature at South End of South Terrace of Prideaux Place

Listing Date: 20 May 1988

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1212203

English Heritage Legacy ID: 396702

ID on this website: 101212203

Location: Padstow, Cornwall, PL28

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Padstow

Built-Up Area: Padstow

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: Padstow

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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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

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