Temple at NGR St 2515 3421
TEMPLE AT NGR ST 2515 3421, HALSWELL PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1058952
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Temple at NGR St 2515 3421
- Statutory Address:
- TEMPLE AT NGR ST 2515 3421, HALSWELL PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1058952
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Temple at NGR St 2515 3421
- Statutory Address 1:
- TEMPLE AT NGR ST 2515 3421, HALSWELL PARK
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 AT NGR ST 2515 3421, HALSWELL PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Goathurst
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 25145 34213
Details
In the entry for:
ST 23 SE GOATHURST HALSWELL PARK
7/44 Temple at NGR ST 2515 3421 28.7.50
the description shall be amended as follows:
In the first line delete "Early C18" and insert "1767 by Thomas Prowse for Sir Charles Halswell, in memory of Peregrine Palmer, MP for the University of Oxford, who died in 1762."
At the end of the description insert "Country Life, 9 February 1989."
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ST23SE GOATHURST CP HALSWELL PARK
7/44 Temple at NGR ST 2515 3421
28.7.50 II*
Psuedo-peripteral temple. Early C18. Ashlar, slate roof, pedimental end gables, rusticated side walls; architrave, frieze and cornice all round on Ionic columns, 7 along each side elevation, 5 engaged and 2 free-standing forming supports for portico on frontage which faces towards Halswell House (qv); 4 columns across front of portico. Architrave door opening, moulded ledge-hood on brackets, double-panelled doors missing at time of re- survey, (March I1851. Interior with remains of plaster ceiling and ornamental cornice; aedicule to rear wall. Much damage being caused by tree and shrub growth around stylobate. (Pevsner N., Buildings of England, South and West Somrset, 1958; Country Life, Nov 21, 1908; Collinson, Sonerset I, 1791; VCH somerset II, 1911; Garden History, V, 3, 1977; Jones B., Follies and Grottoes, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST2514534213
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 269306
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1911)
Jones, B, Follies and Grottoes, (1974)
Collinson, J, History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset, (1791)
Country Life in 21 November, (1908)
Country Life in 9 February, (1989)
Garden History in Number 5, Vol. 3, (1977)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 37 Somerset,
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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