Latitude: 51.8428 / 51°50'33"N
Longitude: -0.9402 / 0°56'24"W
OS Eastings: 473107
OS Northings: 216547
OS Grid: SP731165
Mapcode National: GBR C11.H3J
Mapcode Global: VHDTW.NY97
Plus Code: 9C3XR3V5+4W
Entry Name: The Aviary
Listing Date: 29 January 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1159354
English Heritage Legacy ID: 42279
ID on this website: 101159354
Location: Buckinghamshire, HP18
County: Buckinghamshire
Civil Parish: Waddesdon
Traditional County: Buckinghamshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Buckinghamshire
Church of England Parish: Waddesdon with Over Winchendon and Fleet Marston
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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WADDESDON
WADDESDON MANOR GROUNDS
The Aviary
GV
II
Aviary. 1889, for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, restored 1960-66. Cast iron, metal lattice and wire mesh. Crescent-shaped with central and end pavilions.
Rococo in style with slender cast iron shafts and lattice work pilasters dividing bays, and upper borders with elaborate scrolls and shell motifs. Curving ranges of cages, each of four bays, have roof in form of a pointed barrel vault, mesh to front pitch, enclosed to rear.
End pavilions have shallow metal domes, slightly arched over each side. Central pavilion has glazed dome and rear wall of ashlar in form of grotto with wide segmental niche for fountain, piers with shaggy rustication, and tall flanking shell niches. Fountain has carved marble figure of Minerva, early C18 of Italian origin, reclining on rocks of tufa, with flanking marble tritons. Shell niches contain C17 Italian carved marble figures of a triton and a nereid sitting on twisted conch shells. Aviary has attached flanking walls of ashlar, the end piers with moulded capitals and bases.
Listing NGR: SP7310716547
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