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Description: | Four statues of female figures in classical dress set in niches in the end pavilions of the front (west) façade of the school. There are two niches in each pavilion. There are four carved panels above, in the top corners of the pavilions. From left to right the statues are: Left pavilion, left niche: woman with tree. A draped woman standing with her left foot back. Her left breast is exposed. She holds her drapery in her left hand and is looking down. Her hair is in waves round her head with a knot at the back. There is the trunk of a tree behind her legs. The right arm is missing. Left pavilion, right niche: woman with cornucopia. A female figure wearing elaborate layered drapery with long sleeves and a cloak. Her right leg is forward and her left arm is across her body. She is holding a cornucopia down by her right side resting on a sphere, with fruit, grapes and corn ears spilling out of it. Her hair is in waves round her head with a knot at the back, and she wears a headdress or crown which is castellated and splayed out and resembles a castle on her head. Right pavilion, left niche: woman with jar. A draped woman standing with her left knee bent, her left arm across her body, holding a round jar in both hands. Her hair is in waves round her head with a knot at the back. The face looks rather blank, is this because the surface is worn? Stands on a square base. Right pavilion, right niche: woman with wall. Woman wearing a short dress fastened at the shoulder, with her left breast exposed. She is wearing a wreath on her head and her hair is dressed in waves round her head and knotted at the back. She is standing with her right leg crossed over the left one, leaning against stones which form a low wall behind her, and her right hand rests on a round vessel which is broken and lying on its side with water flowing from it to the ground. Her left arm would have been across her body but is broken off. Panels: all four are the same. They are set in the top corners of the pavilions at either end of the facade. Depicts a griffin with one paw raised resting on an elaborate urn which is at the edge of the panel so that only one half is seen. Flames or plumes are coming from the top. Each panel in the two pairs is a mirror image of its companion with the griffins facing towards each other. Their wings point behind with the feathers visible. There is considerable detail depicted - Coade stone? Back of building, on east wall: two jardinieres set in niches in the wings on either side of the central bay of back wall of the school. Two large urns in white stone with decorative bands round the top and fluting at the base. | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Architect: Leverton, Thomas | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=6991... | Go to resource |
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