Listed Building: Statue of "Summer" approx 5m south west of Manor House (17/27)

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Grade II
NHLE UID 1298854
Date assigned 11 March 1987
Date last amended

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Statue. Early C18. Limestone. Female figure with a cornucopia of fruit representing "Summer". Moulded ironstone plinth. Badly eroded. Part of a group of statues of "The Seasons" with a central figure of "Atlas" (q.v.). Noted as having belonged to a formal garden layout of c.1700 at the Manor House (q.v.). (C. Hussey, Ashby St. Ledgers Manor House, Country Life, August 1951, p.496).

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Grid reference Centred SP 5733 6826 (3m by 1m)
Civil Parish ASHBY ST. LEDGERS, West Northamptonshire (formerly Daventry District)

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Sep 13 2021 3:31PM

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