Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
24073
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/10/2000
Date of Amendment
10/10/2000
Name of Property
North Urn on Bowling Green of Mounton House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Mathern
Town
Chepstow
Locality
Mounton
Easting
351350
Northing
192999
Street Side
NW
Location
About 50m west 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, with a cylindrical finial with a moulded top. It forms the visual stop at the north west 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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