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...and Landscape Curiosities

BURTON CONSTABLE, East Riding

Gateway and Tower                                              TA 188 367

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​Date taken: 19/08/2013

Gardener's Cottage                                             TA 190 365

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The central block of the Gardener's Cottage was a slaughterhouse with a dog house on the left and a pigsty on the right. It was built in about 1760, probably by Timothy Lightoller for William Constable. 










Date taken: 19/08/2013 

Orangery                                                                    TA 188 366

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Thomas Atkinson designed the neo-classical orangery in 1788. The statues, pineapples and urns are by Helen Coade. It had the innovation of the day of a curved glass roof. The top panes are original but most of the glass has been replaced with straight glass. 








​Date taken: 11/09/2018
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Uomo con Flauto

A modern copy of Boy with a Flute was made to replace the badly eroded 19th century one.
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The Three Graces

The Three Graces, Aglaia, Euphrosyne and Thalia, were the personification of beauty, charm and grace. They are made of artificial stone in about 1830 by M. Texier based on Antonio Canova's original marble group. 

 

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Cupid and Psyche

Cupid and Psyche is in artificial stone and made in about 1830 by M.Texier. 

Cupid, the Roman god of Love, fell in love with the beautiful psyche, who inadvertently angered him, so he left her. After she searched for him, the gods took pity on her and they were united. 
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Donna con Lira 

The Girl with a Lyre was made to replace the eroded 19th century sculpture.

Stag                                                                               TA 180 365           

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In about 1860, a large statue of a stag was placed on a plinth at the end of a vista from Burton Constable Hall. 

Brown's Bridge                                                    TA 185 360

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Lancelot Brown designed a bridge that disguises a dam to his lake that was begun in 1775.  











​Date taken: 19/08/2013

Bathing Pool                                                          TA 187 358

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​The Menagerie                                                        TA 183 366

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In 1757, William Constable consulted Thomas Knowlton who proposed a menagerie should be built. Knowlton submitted plans for designing a menagerie but they may have been for an animal enclosure rather than a building. The pavilion was probably designed by Timothy Lightoller who collaborated with Knowlton in designing the kitchen garden. 
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The Menagerie is now a dwelling.




Date taken: 19/08/2013

Bothy and Gardener's Cottage                        TA 181 368

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The kitchen garden that was designed by Thomas Knowlton and Timothy Lightoller has recently been restored along with the gardeners' cottages.  










​Date taken: 19/08/2013
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