Temple of Milton
TEMPLE OF MILTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1140616
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Temple of Milton
- Statutory Address:
- TEMPLE OF MILTON
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1140616
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Temple of Milton
- Statutory Address 1:
- TEMPLE OF MILTON
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 OF MILTON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Maker-with-Rame
- National Grid Reference:
- SX4571452625
Details
SX 45 SE MAKER-WITH-RAME MOUNT EDGCUMBE COUNTRY PARK
7/200 Temple of Milton
25.1.68
GV II*
Temple. Late C18. Rendered limestone. Circular plan, on plinth of 4 granite
steps. 5 open bays to front, with Ionic columns, engaged half-column to each side,
frieze and modillion cornice, blocking course and domed roof.
Interior Frieze and dentil cornice below domed plaster roof, rear wall has round-
headed niche, with marble tablet over with quotation from Milton's Paradise Lost,
Book IV:
"Over head up grow
Insuperable height of loftiest shade;
Cedar and fir and branching palm,
A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend
Shade above shade, a woody theatre
Of Statliest view."
The Temple is shown on an engraving by John Crook dated 1819.
Listing NGR: SX4571452625
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61857
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 8 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly,
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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