Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Classical bust on stele in niche of garden wall at Vaynol Old Hall.
Pentir, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 22 September 1997
- Locality
- Vaynol Park
- Town
- Bangor
- Community
- Pentir
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.20293, -4.18948
- Cadw reference
- 18917
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
The bust is set in a rough alcove, on the exterior of the the E garden wall, facing the outer service drive from Vaynol Farm.
History
One of a number of classical garden ornaments placed around the garden by the Assheton-Smith family during the many campaigns to improve the gardens in the C19 and early C20. This figure is probably an C18 copy of a Roman original.
Exterior
Of limestone, the stele painted. A classical bust of a young woman, her wavy hair tied with a ribbon, wearing a draped himation, set on a plinth, and mounted on an inverted-tapered stele, its front recessed as a moulded panel, and enriched top and bottom with husks. Moulded die and a 2-stage square base. Small concrete repair to chin. The niche, of which the lower part is properly chamfered, has been altered later in a rustic manner to form a 2-centred arched recess.
Reason for designation
Included as one of the embellishments of the gardens in Vaynol Park.
Nearby in the register
- Terraced Garden to N of Vaynol Old HallGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Walls to inner and outer gardens on E side of Vaynol Old HallGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Gateway with inscription set in N boundary wall of Terrace Garden opposite Vaynol Old HallGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Arched wall to forecourt of Vaynol Old HallGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.