Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Putti 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
- 53.20253, -4.19148
- Cadw reference
- 4177
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.
History
Probably mid C18 and placed in the Italian Garden at its inception c1913.
Exterior
Made of lead and mounted on a stone pedestal. One of a pair of garden figures, depicting two putti disporting themselves with bunches of grapes, one sits on a fish, and leans out drunkenly, and is supported by the other holding on to a branch with an acorn finial. The leaning putto has one arm missing. The pedestal is octagonal and is set on a stone platform in the grassed upper bay of the garden.
Reason for designation
Included as a group of interest, and an important element of group value in the garden associated with Vaynol Hall.
Nearby in the register
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- 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
- Urn and pedestal in formal garden NE of Vaynol Hall.Gardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.