GOTHIC TEMPLE APPROXIMATELY 600 METRES TO EAST OF SHOTOVER PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1047629
Date first listed:: 17-Jul-1963
List Entry Name:: GOTHIC TEMPLE APPROXIMATELY 600 METRES TO EAST OF SHOTOVER PARK
Statutory Address:: GOTHIC TEMPLE APPROXIMATELY 600 METRES TO EAST OF SHOTOVER PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1047629
Date first listed:: 17-Jul-1963
List Entry Name:: GOTHIC TEMPLE APPROXIMATELY 600 METRES TO EAST OF SHOTOVER PARK
Statutory Address 1:: GOTHIC TEMPLE APPROXIMATELY 600 METRES TO EAST OF SHOTOVER PARK

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: GOTHIC TEMPLE APPROXIMATELY 600 METRES TO EAST OF SHOTOVER PARK

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Forest Hill with Shotover
National Grid Reference:: SP 58994 06726

Details

FOREST HILL WITH SHOTOVER SHOTOVER SP50NE 5/82 Gothic Temple approx. 600m. to 18/07/63 E of Shotover Park

GV II*

Garden temple or boathouse. c.1740. Possibly by William Townsend of Oxford for General James Tyrrell. Limestone ashlar and rubble; old plain-tile roof. Gothick style. Gabled front, with crenellated parapet bearing an apex finial, has 3 pointed arches and a blind traceried wheel between triangular panels. Flanking octagonal turrets have 2-tiers of cusped ogee panels and niches, steep triangular gablets on attached angle shafts, and recessed upper stages which terminate in a tier of openings. Sides and rear are in plain rubble with a hipped roof. Interior: Open loggia has a ribbed and panelled plaster vault with Gothick cusping and decorative bosses. The temple lies at the eastern end of the main axis of the important early C18 layout of the formal garden. James Gibbs and William Kent have also been suggested as its designer. (C. Hussey, Country Life, Vol.LIX, pp.240-6; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.V. p.276; Buildings of England; Oxfordshire, p.765).

Listing NGR: SP5899406726

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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974)
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1957), 276
'Country Life' in Country Life, , Vol. 59, (), 240-6
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.