Listed Building record MDO1110 - Lion Gate, Melbury Park, Evershot

(ST 57520519. Lion Gate sited from OS2500 1975 and Auth 1)
Lion Gate. A pair of late C17th gatepiers, now at the entrance to Melling Sampford Park. Ham Hill stone, the lions being carved from Portland Stone. They are shown on a painting of 1698 standing centrally before the East front of Melling Sampford House.
Grade II*. (1-3)

National Record of the Historic Environment, 882107 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 278 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 108 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(2) Lion Gate, gate-piers, now at the entrance to Melbury park, 750 yards N.N.E. of the parish church, are of wrought Ham Hill and Portland stone. They were built during the last quarter of the 17th century; in Thomas Hill's painting, c.1698, on the N. wall of the main staircase in Melbury House (Melbury Sampford (2)) they are shown standing centrally before the E. front of the house. They are rusticated and contain round-headed semi-circular niches with ashlar-faced pedestals; each pier has a dentil-cornice and, on the top, a lion, standing and supporting a cartouche'. (1)

Record last edited

Jan 27 2025 1:48PM