Pedestal and Statue of Spinario Henderskelfe, England
Listed Building Data
Pedestal and Statue of Spinario has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1296457
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 25 January 1954
- Name
- PEDESTAL AND STATUE OF SPINARIO
- Location
- PEDESTAL AND STATUE OF SPINARIO, SOUTH PARTERRE
- Parish
- Henderskelfe
- District
- Ryedale
- County
- North Yorkshire
- Grid Reference
- SE 71722 69808
- Easting
- 471722.3040
- Northing
- 469807.5220
Listed Building Description
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HENDERSKELFE SOUTH PARTERRE SE 7169 (south-east corner) 12/64 Pedestal and statue of Spinario (formerly listed 25.1.54 under "Castle Howard with Outbuilding to east and garden statues")
GV I Composite pedestal and statue of Spinario. c1720. Pedestal by Nicholas Hawksmoor. Sandstone pedestal, lead statue. Pedestal approximately 4.5 metres in height, statue life size. Central rectangular pier surmounted by drum pedestal, flanked by rectangular buttresses with raised panels, each carrying an urn with festoons and finial on shaped base. Moulded base and cornices. Statue of Spinario, a seated boy removing a thorn from his foot. Copied from a Roman original now in the Capitoline Museum, Rome. Haskell F and Penny N, Taste and the Antique, 1981, p 308. Hussey C, English Gardens and Landscapes 1700-1750, 1967. HBMC, Register of Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England, Part 32, North Yorkshire: Castle Howard, Grade I.
Listing NGR: SE7172269808
