Temple Approximately 32 Metres West of Belcombe Court
TEMPLE APPROXIMATELY 32 METRES WEST OF BELCOMBE COURT, BELCOMBE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1036019
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Temple Approximately 32 Metres West of Belcombe Court
- Statutory Address:
- TEMPLE APPROXIMATELY 32 METRES WEST OF BELCOMBE COURT, BELCOMBE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1036019
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Temple Approximately 32 Metres West of Belcombe Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- TEMPLE APPROXIMATELY 32 METRES WEST OF BELCOMBE COURT, BELCOMBE ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TEMPLE APPROXIMATELY 32 METRES WEST OF BELCOMBE COURT, BELCOMBE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bradford-on-Avon
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 81700 60621
Details
BELCOMBE ROAD ST 86 SW (north side)
Temple approx 32m W of Belcombe Court (formerly listed as Temple in grounds of Belcombe Court)
GV 18.4.52 II*
the description shall be amended to read:
Temple. 1740s for Francis Yerbury. Limestone ashlar. Circular plan. Classical style Roman Doric columns, set in wide couples, with triglyph frieze and cornice; flaming urn to dome. Overlooks pond to W of Belcombe Court. Wood had intended Belcombe Court to command a natural view across the Avon valley and had supposed that there had been an ancient Druidic temple on the site. He was offended when Francis Yerbury gave the job to a working "Mason" as part of the garden bounded by the ha-ha (q.v.) and including the grotto (q.v.), Gothic cottage (q.v.) and garden seat (q.v.) which he created to the west of Belcombe Court in the 1740s.
(T Mowl and B Earnshaw, John Wood, Architect of Obsession, 1988, pp 120-121.)
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1. BELCOMBE ROAD 5411 (North Side)
Temple in grounds of Belcombe Court ST 86 SW 6/116A 18.4.52.
II* GV 2. Near the house and to the west of it is a small lake. Overlooking the lake is a circular domed structure originally intended to cover a garden seat and now known as The Temple. Probably early to mid C18. Ashlar. The stone dome is supported on 8 slender Roman Doric columns, set in wide couples, with circular triglyph frieze and cornice. The height of the columns is about 8ft and the diameter of the Temple is about 10ft. to the outside of the columns.
Belcombe Court forms an important group with the Temple, Stables, Barn, Grotto and Cottage to the West.
Listing NGR: ST8169860622
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 312499
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mowl, T, Earnshaw, B, John Wood Architect of Obsession, (1988), 120-121
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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