Classical Temple at NGR SO 7713 9934
CLASSICAL TEMPLE AT NGR SO 7713 9934, BADGER DINGLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053667
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Classical Temple at NGR SO 7713 9934
- Statutory Address:
- CLASSICAL TEMPLE AT NGR SO 7713 9934, BADGER DINGLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1053667
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Classical Temple at NGR SO 7713 9934
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLASSICAL TEMPLE AT NGR SO 7713 9934, BADGER DINGLE
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:
- CLASSICAL TEMPLE AT NGR SO 7713 9934, BADGER DINGLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Badger
- National Grid Reference:
- SO7714199359
Details
SO 79 NE
7/61
BADGER C.P.
BADGER DINGLE
Classical Temple at N.G.R. SO 7713 9934
II
Classical temple/summerhouse. Probably late C18. Possibly attributable
to James Wyatt. Brick (English Garden Wall and random bond), stuccoed
with stone dressings. Square plan with apses running east to west;
single storey with basement below external ground level; 2 vaulted cellars
with round arched openings beneath the apse on the west side and a single
vaulted cellar to the east of the entrance on the south side. 2 empty
statue niches flank the western apse; moulded eaves cornice. The
temple is now virtually ruinous; the roof has fallen in and the 4 pillars
of the former colonnade to the western apse have collapsed and lie in
fragments to the front. The temple is marked as The Bird House on an
1837 map of the Badger Hall estate. Badger Hall (now demolished) was
designed by Wyatt between 1779 and 1783. H.M. Colvin, Biographical
Dictionary of English Architects, 1660 - 1840.
Listing NGR: SO7714199359
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255150
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of English Architects 1600-1840, (1954)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 35 Shropshire,
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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