Temple of Piety on East Side of Moon Pond
TEMPLE OF PIETY ON EAST SIDE OF MOON POND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1150613
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Temple of Piety on East Side of Moon Pond
- Statutory Address:
- TEMPLE OF PIETY ON EAST SIDE OF MOON POND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1150613
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Temple of Piety on East Side of Moon Pond
- Statutory Address 1:
- TEMPLE OF PIETY ON EAST SIDE OF MOON POND
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 PIETY ON EAST SIDE OF MOON POND
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lindrick with Studley Royal and Fountains
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 28089 68786
Details
SE 2868 LINDRICK WITH STUDLEY STUDLEY PARK ROYAL AND FOUNTAINS
9/79 Temple of Piety on east side of Moon Pond (formerly 6.3.67 listed as Temple of Piety)
GV I
Garden building. Completed by 1742; plasterwork completed 1748,restored c1980. By Robert Doe with plasterwork by Cortèse for John Aislabie to a design probably supplied by Lord Burlington. Ashlar and rendered brick, Westmorland slate roof with broad lead verges. A perfectly proportioned temple with deep portico of 6 Doric columns on a gritstone pavement supporting entablature and pediment with pedestal. Central 6-panel double door in architrave with mask of a satyr on the keystone. Flanking pairs of shuttered windows with architraves; recessed panels above. Rear: grey brick casing dating from part restoration before 1966. Left and right returns: central 4-panel door in eared surround with triple keystone. Interior: portico ceiling - Doric frieze of bucrania; 3-panels richly detailed with central rose and leaf motifs. Inner room - rear wall has circular framed bas relief of captive soldier suckled by his daughter, flanked by gilded swags. Ceiling - richly decorated with a fretted frame enclosing an oval panel with Chinese masks in the spandrel and central scrolled motif. The original dedication was to Jupiter and the design is based on Antonio Labaco's reconstruction of a Roman temple. The only source of information on the original model was in the possession of Lord Burlington, Lord Lieutenant for the North and West Ridings from 1714 whose deputy John Aislabie was. Aislabie must have had close personal contact with Lord Burlington, probably resulting in the latter's involvement with this temple design. William Aislabie rededicated the temple after the death of his father in 1742 and the plasterwork dates from that time. A large bust of Jupiter was recorded over the fireplace in 1740 but has disappeared. A fireplace survived into the C19 (Walker). The building is the most important feature of the water garden, standing on earthern terraces and reflected in the Moon Pond following the piano nobile style of eg Chiswick House by Lord Burlington (1725). G Beard, Studley Royal, Country Life, 1961. W T C Walker, personal communication.
Listing NGR: SE2808968786
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331083
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 9 March, (1961)
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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