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Latitude: 51.442 / 51°26'31"N
Longitude: -0.3318 / 0°19'54"W
OS Eastings: 516040
OS Northings: 172761
OS Grid: TQ160727
Mapcode National: GBR 6C.YWR
Mapcode Global: VHGR8.60GX
Plus Code: 9C3XCMR9+Q7
Entry Name: Pope's Grotto in Grounds of St Catherine's High School
Listing Date: 2 September 1952
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1192178
English Heritage Legacy ID: 205295
ID on this website: 101192178
Location: Twickenham, Richmond upon Thames, London, TW1
County: London
District: Richmond upon Thames
Electoral Ward/Division: South Twickenham
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Richmond upon Thames
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Holy Trinity Twickenham
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Grotto
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TQ 1672
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2.9.52
CROSS DEEP (east side)
Pope's Grotto in grounds of St Catherine's High School
II*
Grotto with rusticated arched entrance facing river, and running under the road to what was part of Pope's Estate on the other side and is now the school playing fields (passage lengthened when road widened C19-C20). Long passage with two "chapels" one on either side of entrance. Lined with cement in which are set rocks, stones, stalactites (said to have come from Wookey Hole in Somerset) etc. and the cement worked to intimate rough rocks.
There are a few bits of sculpture (statues, etc not good) in the "chapels" The decorations which lined the grotto have long since gone and the grotto is dark and gloomy though dry. The whole is well looked after and preserved by the Sisters. The school and convent stand on the site of Pope's House above the entrance to the Grotto.
(Also a smaller grotto in the grounds probably of similar origin.) '
Listing NGR: TQ1604072761
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