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Latitude: 50.4428 / 50°26'34"N
Longitude: -3.5677 / 3°34'3"W
OS Eastings: 288776
OS Northings: 61504
OS Grid: SX887615
Mapcode National: GBR QT.RF0Y
Mapcode Global: FRA 37DW.KVJ
Plus Code: 9C2RCCVJ+4W
Entry Name: Walls, Steps and Sphinxes to Garden South of Oldway Mansion
Listing Date: 25 October 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1298260
English Heritage Legacy ID: 383877
ID on this website: 101298260
Location: Oldway, Preston, Torbay, Devon, TQ3
County: Torbay
Electoral Ward/Division: Preston
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Paignton
Traditional County: Devon
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon
Church of England Parish: Paignton Christ Church
Church of England Diocese: Exeter
Tagged with: Wall
PAIGNTON
SX8861 TORQUAY ROAD
1947-1/4/105 (West side)
Walls, steps and sphinxes to garden
south of Oldway Mansion
GV II
Walls to garden S of Oldway Mansion, including flights of
steps and sphinxes. c1907-1907, contemporary with the
remodelling of Oldway Mansion (qv) for Paris Singer. Grounds
laid out by A Duchesne, the leading French formal landscape
architect. Concrete walls; paved terrace; white Italian marble
sphinxes.
Plain, low, coped concrete wall to paved terrace immediately
in front of the house, with flights of steps up from the south
garden. Central flight of steps is flanked by fine C18 style
sphinxes, described in Pevsner as "delightfully haughty", with
elaborate hairstyles, earrings and fichus. Low, coped concrete
walls to W and E of the garden return at the N end with a
flight of steps up to the lawn.
Part of the setting of Oldway Mansion, the sphinxes setting
off the erotic scuplture in the pediment of the south front.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989:
839-40).
Listing NGR: SX8877661504
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