Building record 0440906001 - LANDING STEPS & BRIDGE, S OF SPRING LODGE

Summary

Renaissance-style balustrades to landing steps and bridge, sculpted by Thomas Waldo Story and built about 1900

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  • Listed Building (II) 1165685: LANDING STEPS AND BRIDGE TO SOUTH OF SPRING LODGE (DBC1737)

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  • BALUSTRADE (Constructed about 1900, 20th Century - 1900 AD to 1900 AD)

Description

Grade II. c1900 for W W Astor by T Waldo Story. Stone Renaissance style balustrades to a small bridge over outflow from a pond to the Thames and, at right angles, similar balustrades flanking stone steps down to river edge. Balustrades modelled on Villa Borghese balustrade [CAS 0440902004] with turned balusters and eagles on piers. The pool is the outflow of the mineral spring frequented as a miniature spa in the early C19 (B7).

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  • <7>SBC4001 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: DISTRICT OF SOUTH BUCKS. p212.

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Grid reference SU 90872 84487 (point)
Civil Parish TAPLOW, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

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Nov 29 2023 2:26PM

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