Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Garden Fountain N of Walled Garden at Ffynone
Manordeifi, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 24 November 1994
- Locality
- Ffynnonau
- Community
- Manordeifi
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.01693, -4.56460
- Cadw reference
- 15128
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated to SW of house at bottom of slope just N of walled garden.
History
Mid or later C19 garden ornament apparently pre-dating the main garden improvements of 1902-7.
Exterior
Mid to later C19 fountain and basin. Bath stone. The basin has stone rim with gadrooned edging, and fountain stands on octagonal plinth with big flat vase with moulded stem, fluted underside and gadrooned edge, itself carrying a similar smaller vase, and fountain pipe clasped by a pair of eroded putti.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with other listed items at Ffynone.
Nearby in the register
- The Gazebo at the Garden HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Sundial on W Lawn at FfynoneGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Terrace Wall and Balustrade to W Garden at FfynoneDomesticunder 1 mi
- FfynoneDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.