Building record 6717/0/12 - Statue Formerly Within Blatherwycke Park (Apollo Belvedere copy)

{1} Statue. Probably C19. Reconstituted limestone. Male figure on plinth, with rams head decoration. Formerly part of landscape layout to Blatherwycke Hall which was demolished in 1948.

{3} Further up the slope was a statue, in the middle of a field. This was a copy of the Apollo Belvedere (the original being in the Vatican Museum) and used to stand in the gardens of the hall.

{4} Bases of two possible C19th stone statues were recorded during fieldwork (the other is at SP9763995661). (Report suggests that by this time only the plinth survives.)

{5} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 17/29 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G12 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN41470.

<3> Northamptonshire Industrial Archaeology Group, 2010, Northamptonshire Industrial Archaeology Group Newsletter (Vol.115), p.6 (checked) (Newsletter). SNN44153.

<4> Hall D.N., 1960-1999, Rockingham Forest Project: Archaeological Sites Recorded by David Hall, Blatherwyke/Site 1 (Database). SNN102279.

<5> Photographs of buildings in Blatherwycke (Photographs). SNN112038.

Record last edited

Aug 19 2020 12:40PM