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Retaining Walls of War Memorial Garden

A Grade II Listed Building in Taplow, Buckinghamshire

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Latitude: 51.5578 / 51°33'28"N

Longitude: -0.6899 / 0°41'23"W

OS Eastings: 490920

OS Northings: 185142

OS Grid: SU909851

Mapcode National: GBR F7J.6DJ

Mapcode Global: VHFT1.034L

Plus Code: 9C3XH856+42

Entry Name: Retaining Walls of War Memorial Garden

Listing Date: 26 April 1985

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1332398

English Heritage Legacy ID: 44272

ID on this website: 101332398

Location: Buckinghamshire, SL6

County: Buckinghamshire

Civil Parish: Taplow

Traditional County: Buckinghamshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Buckinghamshire

Church of England Parish: Taplow

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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Description


SU 98 NW
3/2

TAPLOW
CLIVEDEN ROAD (Cliveden)
Retaining walls of War Memorial Garden

II

c1902 oval Italian garden cut into slope and lined with tufa rocks on east side,
south end and at north and built into tall alcove. Tufa rock walls to entry
path at north west West side has Roman marble screen wall of lattice pattern
with 4 uprights of herm type with head finials. East side has large bronze
statue of woman by Sir B Mackennal standing above fine Cl Roman marble panel.
North alcove contains Venetian wellhead dated 1561 and has bronze plaque
recording conversion of garden to First World War memorial.

Listing NGR: SU9092085142


This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 21 August 2017.

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