Grotto in Carshalton Park
Grotto in Carshalton Park
Record No
165389
Title
Grotto in Carshalton Park
Description
The Grotto, Carshalton Park, Ruskin Road, Carshalton. Early eighteenth-century construction at the boundary of a canal in an ornamental garden referred to in Some Designs for Buildings both Publick and Private in volume 3 of The Architecture of Leoni Battista Alberti published c1729. Carshalton Park was the seat of Sir William Scawen and the manor house was Mascalls. After the death of Sir William Scawen in 1723 plans were prepared by Giacomo Leoni, a celebrated Venetian architect, for a new house which was not built and the family moved to Stone Court and Woodcote Park. Most of the estate has now been built over, and the iron gates have been removed to Planting Fields, Oyster Bay, Baltimore, owned by New York University. This grotto, the former orangery or temple in The Square and sections of the walls are the only remaining features of the landscape. The Grotto is Grade II* listed, listing number 1065628.
Date of execution
1972
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_661_72_35_556_31
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