Listed Building record MDR25031 - Two Pairs of Cherubs Northwest of the Grand Basin in Melbourne Hall Gardens, Church Close, Melbourne

Two Pairs of Cherubs to North West of the Grand Basin in Melbourne Hall Gardens, Church Close, Melbourne, built in the 17th century. From the National Heritage List for England: 'SK 38/3925 PARISH OF MELBOURNE CHURCH CLOSE 6/74 (East Side) 10.11.67 Two Pairs of Cherubs to North-West of the Grand Basin in Melbourne Hall Gardens (formerly listed as 'Pair of pedestals with fighting cupids on north side of garden, Melbourne Hall') GV I Two pairs of cherubs. c1700 by Jan van Nost. Erected as part of a French style garden, designed by Royal Gardeners to Queen Anne, London and Wise, for Thomas Coke of Melbourne Hall. Stone and lead. Each pair of cherubs stand on a panelled stone pedestal with moulded base and cornice. To the western pair, one cherub is snatching a bunch of lilies from the other and to the eastern pair the cherubs are quarrelling. These form a group with two pairs of cherubs on the opposite side of the Basin and tell the tale of Castor and his brother Pollux fighting over a bunch of flowers and their eventual reconciliation. Included in the Derbyshire Historic Gardens Register at Grade I. See item 6/63 for sources. Listing NGR: SK3914125032.' (1)