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Dahlia garden from W.

Lode Mill from the entrance to the herbaceous garden

Ancient Roman porphyry urn in the Emperors' Walk, placed here when this section of the garden was developed after World War II. Listing description: www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-49326-urn-and-temple-.. .

Lead statue signed by John Cheere, dated 1720, formerly at Copped Hall, Essex. Previously identified as Diana and Actaeon (or perhaps Venus and Adonis, according to the list description: britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-49319-sculpture-group-of-... ); the 2008 guidebook (revised 2010) identifies the subject as Meleager and Atalanta, presumably on account of the dead boar at the base of the composition.

Lode Mill seen from the riverside walk.

Bridge across Quy Water to the North of the house

The S. front of the house, formed c.1600 from the remaining monastic buildings, and extensively restored in the 1920s, when (according to the Buildings of England ) the strapwork and carving were added over the porch and the gables reinstated on the basis of an old print. Additions from the 1920s and 1930s on the left.

Jubilee Avenue (formerly Daffodil Walk) from the S.

Coade stone caryatids of 1793 at the junction of the Coronation Avenue and the Cross Avenue, laid out from 1937. The figures came from Buckingham House on Pall Mall, demolished in 1908 for the erection of the Royal Automobile Club. The National Trust guide describes them as coming from the entrance hall but they appear in fact to have come from the attic of Soane's staircase ( www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40594 for architectural history of Buckingham House; www.british-history.ac.uk/image.aspx?compid=40859&fil... for photograph). See set page for general history of Anglesey Abbey.

Temple Lawn from the W. The columns were formerly at Chesterfield House, London, designed by Isaac Ware, 1748-9 and demolished 1937: www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-49334-ten-columns-at-...

Early 18th century lead urn near the Quarry Pool, depicting the triumph of Bacchus, from Drakelowe Hall, Derbyshire, initialled W.M. : britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-49317-pedestal-and-urn-at...

Looking across the Round Pond (with its marble fountain installed in the 1860s) towards the Orangery, built in the 1830s to the 2nd Earl De Grey's own design, based on a design in a French publication of 1737.

The temple was probably first built c.1760, repaired 1769 by Edward Stevens, and probably reworked or rebuilt 1876 for Lady Cowper; also heavily restored C20: list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1321760 .