Description

SK 38/3925 PARISH OF MELBOURNE CHURCH CLOSE
6/88 (East Side)
10.11.67 Grotto to South East of
the Old Mill in
Melbourne Hall Gardens
GV II*
Grotto. Early C19. Red brick covered in tufa, shells and
marble. Low segmental headed alcove with small semi-circular
headed marble niche to back over a small stone pool. Over the
niche is a marble inscription reading
'Rest weary stranger in this shady cave,
And taste, if languid, of the mineral wave,
There's virtue in the draught, for health that flies,
From crowded cities and their smoky skies,
Here lends her power from every glade and hill
Strength to the breeze' C Lamb.
This is a later addition to early C18 garden designed by London
and Wise, gardeners to Queen Anne, for Thomas Coke of Melbourne
Hall. Included in the Derbyshire Historic Gardens Register at
Grade I. See item 6/63 for sources.

Listing NGR: SK3910324845

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546589

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Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Berkshire (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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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014