Small Grotto Below Temple of Flora Stourton with Gasper, England
Listed Building Data
Small Grotto Below Temple of Flora has been designated a Grade II 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1131101
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 9 September 1987
- Name
- SMALL GROTTO BELOW TEMPLE OF FLORA
- Location
- SMALL GROTTO BELOW TEMPLE OF FLORA
- Parish
- Stourton with Gasper
- District
- Wiltshire
- Grid Reference
- ST 77413 34016
- Easting
- 377413.0000
- Northing
- 134016.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
STOURTON WITH GASPER STOURHEAD GARDENS ST 73 SE (east side) 6/149 Small grotto below Temple of Flora GV II Grotto. 1744 by Henry Flitcroft. Rustic limestone segmental arched recess, formerly part of a larger design featuring a statue of a River God by Thomas Manning, bought in 1743, set in the recess above a cascade. Flitcroft's design pre-dated the raising of the water level to form the lake; the cascade was submerged and the statue presumably removed c1754. This, together with the Temple of Flora (q.v.) was Henry Hoare's first contribution to the gardens. (K. Woodbridge, The Stourhead Landscape, 1982)
Listing NGR: ST7741334016
