Summary
An eyecatcher erected in 1903 as one of the garden features to Foxhunt Manor, but incorporating a 1765 Gothick style church window.
Description
An eyecatcher erected in 1903 as one of the garden features to Foxhunt Manor, but incorporating a 1765 Gothick style church window.
MATERIALS: brick with some blocks of stone, incorporating an earlier stone church window.
PLAN: a section of walling incorporating a reused church window in the centre.
DESCRIPTION: the central part incorporates the around 1765 Early Gothick style stone arched window comprising five trefoil-headed lights with a central octofoil flanked by quatrefoils above. This is set in a brick surround with irregularly-spaced stone blocks. On one side is a brick wall with a crow-stepped parapet terminating in a brick pier; on the other a more ruinous section of brick walling with some stone coping terminating in a stone pier.
History
The central feature in this structure is the 1765 Gothick style stone east window of All Saints Church Laughton designed by 'Mr Robinson' which was removed and re-erected as an 'eyecatcher' in the grounds of Foxhunt Manor in 1903. Foxhunt Manor was built in 1898 for a builder and Congregational Minister, Joseph Lucas JP.
Reasons for Listing
The 1903 eyecatcher at Foxhunt Manor, which incorporates a resited 1765 Gothick style church window, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Architectural interest:
* as a mid-C18 Gothick window incorporated in a late example of a rare building type;
Group value:
* it forms part of a group of contemporary structures of the same date and style at Foxhunt Manor.
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Recommended Books
Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
Period Property Manual (New Ed)