Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
North Urn on Bowling Green of Mounton House
Mathern, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 10 October 2000
- Locality
- Mounton
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Mathern
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.63368, -2.70432
- Cadw reference
- 24073
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
About 50m west of Mounton House.
History
Part of the elaborate gardens designed for Mounton House by H Avray Tipping and Eric Francis in 1912. This urn is an important feature which has strong group value with Mounton House and other garden features.
Exterior
Large limestone urn with moulded base and cyma cornice. The urn has neo-classical relief decoration, with a cylindrical finial with a moulded top. It forms the visual stop at the north west end of the Bowling Green.
Reason for designation
Included as an important design feature of an early C20 garden having group value with other garden features as well as Mounton House and the ancilliary buildings, designed as a whole and constructed 1910-1912 by H Avray Tipping and Eric Francis.
Nearby in the register
- Mounton HouseEducationunder 1 mi
- Vine Pergola in garden of Mounton HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- South Urn on Bowling Green of Mounton HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Teahouse in garden of Mounton HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.