Description

SOUTH YORKSHIRE
ROTHERHAM
5097

SK39NE BRAMPTON BIERLOW COALEY LANE
SK39629883 (west side, off)

4/1 Needle's Eye (formerly listed
29.3.68 under North Avenue, Wentworth)

II*

Folly. Mid-late C18. Attributed to John Carr (Wragg; Jones, p90)
but clearly shown on an engraving of c1730. For the Wentworth estate.
Ashlar sandstone. Tall, square pyramid pierced, on the axis of a
former avenue to Wentworth Park North Lodge (q.v.), by a narrow, ogee
carriage arch. Plinth, impost band, moulded voussoirs (partly renewed).
At apex a square plinth to an elaborate vase entwined with foliage.

Engraving in York Minster Library, Topographical Prints, Wentworth.

Lyle Publications, Monumental Follies, 1972, p235 (photograph).

B. Jones, Follies and Grottoes, 1974 ed., pp85-86 and p90.

R. B. Wragg, 'The Life and Works of John Carr of York:
Palladian Architect' unpublished thesis, 1975, University of
Sheffield, vol. 3, appendix A, unpaginated.

Listing NGR: SK3962298821

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Needle's Eye at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17534837

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
• 
  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)