Description

SO 96 NW DODFORD WITH GRAFTON CP GRAFTON LANE (north side)

11/87 Garden wall about 20 yards
south-west of Grafton Manor
and adjoining chapel

GV II

Garden wall. Late C16 with mid-C19 repairs. Handmade brick and sandstone
rubble with sandstone coping. Wall runs west for about 40 yards and varies
between four and seven feet high. About 10 yards along the north side is a
chamfered 4-centred archway with sandstone jambs. The wall survives from the
C16 terraced garden layout created by John Talbot and encloses the garden on
the west side of Grafton Manor and adjoining chapel (qv) to the south.
(The Birmingham Post booklet: Grafton manor: a short history, 1980).

Listing NGR: SO9384669116

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26460661

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)