Description

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WORTLEY
WORTLEY PARK
Circular pool with lining and statue at centre of garden to south front of Wortley Hall

GV
II

Circular pool with lining and statue. Probably early C19, for the Wortley Hall
estate. Ashlar sandstone. Circular rim with moulded segmental copings at footpath
level; circular central pedestal with torus moulded base surmounted by male figure
seated on 3 entwined dolphins, his arms now broken. Lady Caroline Creighton, wife
of James Archibald Stuart Wortley, is credited with the surviving early C19 landscape
scheme seen at Wortley Hall.

Wortley Hall, Labour's Home - 25 Years Souvenir, booklet p.17.

Listing NGR: SK3126999442

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26601475

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings