Sundial 150 Metres North of Belton House

SUNDIAL 150 METRES NORTH OF BELTON HOUSE, BELTON PARK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1235882
Date first listed:
21-Sept-1979
List Entry Name:
Sundial 150 Metres North of Belton House
Statutory Address:
SUNDIAL 150 METRES NORTH OF BELTON HOUSE, BELTON PARK
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1235882
Date first listed:
21-Sept-1979
Date of most recent amendment:
14-Nov-1994
List Entry Name:
Sundial 150 Metres North of Belton House
Statutory Address 1:
SUNDIAL 150 METRES NORTH OF BELTON HOUSE, BELTON PARK

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SUNDIAL 150 METRES NORTH OF BELTON HOUSE, BELTON PARK

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Lincolnshire
District:
South Kesteven (District Authority)
Parish:
Belton and Manthorpe
National Grid Reference:
SK9301239423

Details

BELTON & MANTHORPE
SK9339 BELTON PARK, Belton
1315-0/9/97 (East side)
21/09/79 Sundial 150 metres north of Belton
House
(Formerly Listed as:
BELTON PARK, Belton
Sundial approx 100m N of Belton
House)
GV II*

Sundial sited on the main garden axis. c1690. By CG Cibber.
Portland stone figure of Time, seated on a globe, supporting a
baluster column with the assistance of a cherub. The brass
dial is inscribed and signed by Thomas Wright, 1725. The
sundial stands on a modified octagonal sandstone base of 3
steps.
This sundial may have been commissioned by Sir John Brownlow,
builder of Belton House.
This building appears within Belton Park which is on the
Gardens Register at grade I.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J & Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1964-1989: 139; Marsden J & Barber A:
Belton House: London: 1985-1987: 46).


Listing NGR: SK9301239423

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
382879
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 139
Marsden, J, Barber, A, Belton House, (1985-1987), 46

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 27 Lincolnshire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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