Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
24072
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/10/2000
Date of Amendment
10/10/2000
Name of Property
South Urn on Bowling Green of Mounton House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Mathern
Town
Chepstow
Locality
Mounton
Easting
351406
Northing
192963
Street Side
NW
Location
About 80m south east of Mounton House.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
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, but the finial is missing. It forms the visual stop at the south east end of the Bowling Green.
Interior
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.
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