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SE 7169
12/45

HENDERSKELFE
LIME WALK (south end)
Castle Howard Statue of figure playing a lyre and pedestal

GV
II*

Statue of figure playing a lyre and the pedestal on which it stands. Early C19. Sandstone. Approximately 5 metres in height. Plaque at base carries inscription of Henry Hart Milman's poem 'The Belvidere Apollo' which won the Newdigate prize for poetry in 1812:

"For mild he seem'd, as in Elysian bowers,
Wasting in careless ease the joyous hours.
Haughty as bards have sung, with princely sway
Curbing the fierce flame-breathing steeds of day;
Beauteous as vision seen in dreamy sleep
By holy maid on Delphi's haunted steep,
Mid the dim twilight of the laurel grove
Too fair to worship, too divine to love."

Pyramidal pedestal carved to suggest a craggy mountain with trees, ruins and a stream, surmounted by standing figure in loose drapes, holding a lyre.

HBMC, Register of Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England, Part 32, North Yorkshire: Castle Howard, Grade I.

Listing NGR: SE7159069775

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17539795

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)