Garendon Park, the Temple of Venus
GARENDON PARK, THE TEMPLE OF VENUS, ASHBY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1116109
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Garendon Park, the Temple of Venus
- Statutory Address:
- GARENDON PARK, THE TEMPLE OF VENUS, ASHBY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1116109
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Garendon Park, the Temple of Venus
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARENDON PARK, THE TEMPLE OF VENUS, ASHBY 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:
- GARENDON PARK, THE TEMPLE OF VENUS, ASHBY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Charnwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stonebow Village
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 49790 19057
Details
SK 4919 ASHBY ROAD 9/12 (north side)
15.3.65 Garendon Park, The Temple of Venus GV II*
Temple, of the 1730s, by Ambrose Phillipps of Garendon (d.1737). Of ashlar, with carved oak entablature and copper dome. Circular plan, loosely based on the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli. Raised on 4 steps, with a peristyle of Ionic columns. Entablature painted white, with the frieze of ox skulls and small bays with swags between. The roof member of the cornice has lions' heads at intervals. The centre of the temple has a circular apartment with rusticated walls, classical doorcase and 2-fold fielded-panel door. The interior originally contained a statue of Venus, now lost, perhaps destroyed by Luddite rioters in 1811. Mark Aironard, "Ambrose Phillipps of Garendon", Architectural History, 1965.
Listing NGR: SK4979019057
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 189383
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Architectural History in Architectural History, (1965)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 26 Leicestershire,
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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