The large and hugely decorative copper dome cupola, at five feet high, over an applied band of scroll foliate and pillar decoration, raised on pine baluster turned supports with a turned spindle gallery enclosing inverse curved panels, the whole with exceptional patina and verdigris and salvaged from Codford Manor, Wiltshire, England.
Codford Manor, Wiltshire, UK.
This cupola was salvaged from the Georgian manor house Codford Manor which is believed to date from 1810, with late 19th Century additions and is constructed predominantly of limestone ashlar under a Welsh slate hipped roof.
In Italian, cupola simply means “dome”, and the ornamental top element, allowing light to enter, is called a lantern. In architecture, a cupola is a relatively small, usually dome-like structure on top of a building often crowning a larger roof or dome. Cupolas often serve as a roof lantern to admit light and air or as a lookout. The word derives, via Italian, from lower Latin cupula (classical Latin cupella), from the Ancient Greek (kúpellon) ‘small cup’ (Latin cupa), indicating a vault resembling an upside-down cup.
A glorious architectural gem with jaw dropping texture and patina.
The cupola is in un-touched and un-restored condition with some historic repairs and damages to the copper and pine as photographed. It is in two pieces and the top would probably have house a weathervane to the finial of the dome. It could be cleaned and repaired if so desired but it is glorious in this original state.
By appointment only.
