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| Name: | Cowdray Park and Garden |
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| HER Ref: | MWS5850 |
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| Type of record: | Landscape |
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Designations
- Scheduled Monument 29300: COWDRAY: A FORTIFIED MEDIEVAL HOUSE AND PART OF ITS LANDSCAPED GROUNDS
Summary
Remnants of the layout and built features of C16 and early C17 formal gardens surrounding the ruins of a Tudor House, altered and extended by Lancelot Brown in the late C18 and set within a C16 park, also improved by brown, which contains, at c1.5km from the ruins, a Victorian house with associated formal and woodland gardens of early C19 origin
| Grid Reference: | SU 9035 2233 |
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| Parish: | Easebourne, Chichester, West Sussex |
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| Midhurst, Chichester, West Sussex |
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| Map: | Show location on Streetmap |
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Monument Types
- (Former Type) HOUSE (Built, Medieval to Post Medieval - 1520 AD to 1542 AD)
- PARK (Medieval - 1532 AD to 1532 AD)
- HOUSE (Built, Post Medieval - 1875 AD to 1875 AD)
Sources
| <1> | List: English Heritage. 2000. Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England. |
| <2> | Bibliographic reference: Shirley EP. 1867. English Deer Parks. 65. |
| <3> | Bibliographic reference: Whitaker J. 1892. Deer Parks of England. 152. |
| <4> | Bibliographic reference: St John Hope WH. 1919. Cowdrey & Easebourne Priory. 32-33 plan. |
| <5> | Bibliographic reference: Cantor L. 1983. |
| <6> | Bibliographic reference: OS. 1070. SU92SW3. |
| <7> | Verbal communication: Palmer S. |
| <8> | Map: OS. 1813 & 1898-. |
| <9> | Bibliographic reference: Pevsner N. 1965. 198. |
| <10> | List: English Heritage. 1991. Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England. |
Associated Events - none recorded
Associated Monuments
- MWS3365 - Related to: Cowdray House Ruins (Monument)
- MWS8354 - Related to: Eighteenth Century Cottage Range (Listed Building)
- MWS8351 - Related to: Former Stables of Cowdray House (Listed Building)
- MWS8349 - Related to: Gates of Cowdray House (Listed Building)
- MWS8350 - Related to: Granary adjoining the Ruins of Cowdray House (Listed Building)
- MWS8038 - Related to: The Ha Ha, Cowdray House Ruins (Monument)
- MWS8352 - Related to: The Round Tower or Water Tower of Cowdray House (Listed Building)
- MWS8353 - Related to: The Ruins of Cowdray House (Listed Building)
Associated Finds - none recorded
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