[39953] Lyme Park : Courtyard Well-Head

Lyme Park, Cheshire.

The National Trust.

Grade l listed.

Courtyard - Italian Renaissance Well-Head, c18.

Probably brought from Venice c1900.

Grade ll listed.

 

Lyme was once home to the Legh family and, in its heyday, a great sporting estate.

 

In the centre of the courtyard is an Italian Renaissance well-head, surrounded by chequered pink and white stone, simulating marble.

 

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