Description

In the entry for the following:

BRAMHAM CUM OGLETHORPE BRAMHAM PARK
SE4041
LS23
7/43 Obelisk Pond approx.
30.3.66 300 metres south of
Bramham Park House
(formerly listed as
Obelisk Pond)

GV I

The address shall be amended to read:

SE041 BRAMHAM CUM OGLETHORPE BRAMHAM PARK
LS23
7/43 Obelisk Pond and the
Great Cascade approx.
300 metres south of
Bramham Park House
(formerly listed as
Obelisk Pond)

GV I

and the first sentence of the description shall be amended to
read:
Formal Pond with 2 stone basins feeding it on the west side and
cascades with 3 further basins on the south side, and the Great
Cascade to the south.
and the following sentences shall be added at the end of the
description.
Beyond to the south the Great Cascade. This structure has 12
steps or waterfalls and is 4.8 metres wide and 46 metres in
length. The cascade was partly destroyed and grassed over
probably in the late C18 and recently uncovered. (July 1991).

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BRAMHAM CUM OGLETHORPE BRAMHAM PARK
SE4041
LS23 Obelisk Pond approx.
7/43
30.3.66 300 metres south of
Bramham Park house
(Formerly listed as
Obelisk Pond)

GV I

Formal pond with 2 stone basins feeding it on the west side and cascades with 3
further basins on the south side. Probably by John Wood of Bath, 1724-5. Retaining
walls and surrounds of magnesian limestone, mostly dressed with vermiculated panels
and banded piers. The principal pond is rectangular, in the line of the long vista
from the Chapel at the north end to the Temple and Obelisk at the south end (these
2 latter in Barwick in Elmet CP, q.v.), raised about 2 metres above the level of
a natural depression in this vista, and it is fed from a large fan-shaped pond on
the west side, which has a broad stem from which a small cascade channels the flow
through 2 smaller interconnected ponds, waisted for a bridge between them. Outward
flow to the south is subterranean, through terraces on 3 levels and 3 formal ponds
of diminishing size, the topmost with a rectangular pond flanked by 2 descending
flights of steps, the middle one with steps on the west side and a ramp on the east
side leading to a lower grassed terrace with a segmental pond fed by 2 dragon head
spouts in a wall with 3 piers; the lower terrace has similarly decorated retaining
wall, broken in the centre by a smaller cascade flanked by 2 broad flights of steps.
On the north side of the principal pond is a parterre (identified as "semitropical
garden" on survey of garden by Detmar Blow), with sloped side walls to ramped paths
on each side, and at the inner end 3 piers, with dragon head spouts between them.

Listing NGR: SE4099441492

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17530554

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