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AlbertResonox
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|  Posted 02-01-2010 at 12:28
Does anyone know what the little grotto/seat thing is on the Portsmouth Rd...just north of Sandown??
I've driven past several times...but anyone who knows the area will know it's nigh on impossible to park and investigate.
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Jimit
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| Posted 03-01-2010 at 10:03
From Pevsner's "The Buildings of England"........."Opposite the Travellers Rest, a pretty grotto-like "Sedilia", erected by Henry Pelham about 1730-40."
Pelham was the younger brother of the Duke of Newcastle and got William Kent to re-design Esher Place (his country house) in the Rococo-Gothic style.
Jim.
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AlbertResonox
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| Posted 03-01-2010 at 10:26
Thanks for that...I didn't think it was ancient...but just found it intriguing.
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Andy B
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| Posted 03-01-2010 at 16:37
Albert, I know the feature well but I've never stopped to look at it either! Fascinating info Jim, thanks.
Andy
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AlbertResonox
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| Posted 04-01-2010 at 16:50
Managed to find a pic I'd taken last year(was able to due to a traffic hold-up)..it doesn't qualify for Andy's album due to age(at least I don't think so)...so here it is for you...
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Andy B
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| Posted 04-01-2010 at 19:16
Thanks. I'd love to include such things but I don't think we could cope with the volume of submissions we'd get of more modern monuments.
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