Doric Temple
DORIC TEMPLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1149251
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Doric Temple
- Statutory Address:
- DORIC TEMPLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1149251
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jan-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Doric Temple
- Statutory Address 1:
- DORIC TEMPLE
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:
- DORIC TEMPLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rievaulx
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 57732 84407
Details
SE 58 SE RIEVAULX RIEVAULX TERRACE
5/121 Doric Temple (Formerly listed as 4.1.55 Tuscan Temple on Rievaulx Terrace)
GV I
Temple. Wrongly shown on OS map as Tuscan Temple. 1758. Probably by Sir Thomas Robinson. Sandstone ashlar, lead roof. Circular, peripteral dodecastyle plan. Doric columns raised on podium. 10 steps to half- glazed fielded-panel door. 3 round-headed sash windows with thick glazing bars. Metope and triglyph frieze with paterae and bocrania. Low drum and hemispherical dome. Interior: Medieval floor tiles from Rievaulx Abbey. Door beneath pediment carried on brackets. Swags and heads above windows. Moulded modillion cornice with leaf frieze. Coffered ceiling with painting of Ganymede in centre. Pevsner, Yorkshire: The North Riding, 1966; Hussey, 'Duncombe Park, Yorkshire - II', Country Life, December 12, 1957.
Listing NGR: SE5773384408
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 328347
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966)
Country Life in 12 December, (1957)
Country Life in 5 December, (1957)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 32 North Yorkshire,
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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