TEMPLE BESIDE THE LAKE AT THE BURY AT GRID REFERENCE TL 1906 2174

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177173
Date first listed:: 27-May-1968
List Entry Name:: TEMPLE BESIDE THE LAKE AT THE BURY AT GRID REFERENCE TL 1906 2174
Statutory Address:: TEMPLE BESIDE THE LAKE AT THE BURY AT GRID REFERENCE TL 1906 2174

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1177173
Date first listed:: 27-May-1968
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: TEMPLE BESIDE THE LAKE AT THE BURY AT GRID REFERENCE TL 1906 2174
Statutory Address 1:: TEMPLE BESIDE THE LAKE AT THE BURY AT GRID REFERENCE TL 1906 2174

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TEMPLE BESIDE THE LAKE AT THE BURY AT GRID REFERENCE TL 1906 2174

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: St. Paul's Walden
National Grid Reference:: TL 19060 21740

Details

TL 12 SE ST PAUL'S WALDEN ST PAUL'S WALDEN BURY

4/202 Temple beside the lake at The Bury at Grid Ref TL 1906 2174 (formerly listed 27.5.68 as The Gardens at St Paul's Walden Bury)

GV II

Garden temple. 1773 by Sir William Chambers originally erected at Danson Park, Kent, re-erected here 1961 (inscription on skirting inside commemorates rebuilding). Brick built with stucco front and red brick sides and rear. Portico of timber with stone bases to columns and 5 moulded stone steps descending into lake. Low pitched roof. A small. rectangular building facing W across the lake to the Wyatt Temple at the other end of the 1st cross-axis of the garden. Central projection at rear houses arched recess inside, and front has a tetrastyle Doric portico with unfluted Roman Doric order, with triglyph frieze, mutular cornice, and triangular pediment. Tall capped urn on roofridge probably of Coade stone. 2 round-headed sash windows flank a wider round-headed doorway in centre with 3/4 glazed door and lion keystone. Pilasters and panelled soffit to portico. Sections of entablature on sides to N and S.

Listing NGR: TL1906021740

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 162995
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 21 Hertfordshire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.