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Fountain in Venetian Garden at Kinmel
Abergele, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 5 August 1997
- Locality
- Kinmel
- Town
- Abergele
- Community
- Abergele
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.26174, -3.53030
- Cadw reference
- 18678
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 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
The fountain stands at the centre of the Venetian Garden, in front of the W elevation of Kinmel.
History
Built c1870-75 as part of the formal west garden to Kinmel, and probably designed in the office of W A Nesfield, landscape designer and father of the architect for the new house. The fountain itself may be later in date.
Exterior
Circular bowl with a rolled stone margin, approximately 15m in diameter, and having a central marble fountain, probably of later date; 4 shell bowls carried on the backs of crouching sea-horses. Above, putti ride dolphins whose tails intertwine upwards to a shallow lead-lined bowl. The interior of the pond slopes steeply to the centre.
Reason for designation
Listed as the key element in the Venetian garden; part of the setting of this nationally important country house.
Nearby in the register
- Columns in the quadrants of the Venetian Garden at KinmelGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Walls and Gate Piers to the Venetian Garden at Kinmel, with 3 sets of stepsGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Gazebo and Summerhouse in Venetian Garden at Kinmel, including attached stepsGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- KinmelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.