GARENDON PARK, THE TEMPLE OF VENUS

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:: GARENDON PARK, THE TEMPLE OF VENUS, ASHBY ROAD

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 189383
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Architectural History' in Architectural History, (1965)
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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 26 Leicestershire,

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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.