Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Urn and pedestal in formal garden NE of Vaynol Hall.
Pentir, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 26 August 1992
- Locality
- Vaynol Park
- Town
- Bangor
- Community
- Pentir
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.20231, -4.19105
- Cadw reference
- 4175
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 formal Italian garden stands between Vaynol Old Hall and Vaynol Hall, in the heart of Vaynol Park. The urn is mounted at the centre of the garden, where a transverse path crosses the main axis leading up to the fountain terrace.
History
The urn and pedestal are early to mid C18, in a continental baroque style, and were reset in the formal garden at its inception in c1913.
Exterior
Of Weldon type limestone. A tall swagged urn with a gadrooned base and broad foliated rim below the fruit encrusted cap, set on a panelled and painted pedestal.
Reason for designation
Included as a very fine example of its type, and for group value as an important element in this garden associated with Vaynol Hall.
Nearby in the register
- Terrace Walls and fountain to formal garden to NE of Vaynol Hall.Gardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Putti and pedestal in formal Garden NE of Vaynol Hall.Gardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Putti and pedestal in formal garden NE of Vaynol Hall.Gardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Gateway with bellcage at head of formal garden NE of Vaynol HallGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.