The Temple in Whitley Park
THE TEMPLE IN WHITLEY PARK, LILEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183892
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Temple in Whitley Park
- Statutory Address:
- THE TEMPLE IN WHITLEY PARK, LILEY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183892
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Temple in Whitley Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE TEMPLE IN WHITLEY PARK, LILEY LANE
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:
- THE TEMPLE IN WHITLEY PARK, LILEY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirkburton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 20862 16949
Details
SE 11 NE LILEY LANE SE 2086 1694 Grange Moor
3/64 The Temple in Whitley Park II
Temple or belvedere (now ruined). Circa 1752-4. Attributed to James Paine. Ashlar, lined with coursed brickwork. Probable domed roof now gone. Octagonal structure within a square with set-back corners. Each side is pedimented with heavy moulded eaves cornice with blocking course. To three sides is a round arched window, and to the fourth side the doorway with shouldered architrave with chambranles, pulvinated frieze and cornice. Each opening is set in a round-arched recess. Moulded impost band. The interior is octagonal with the windows to 4 sides and a round-arched niche to each of the other 4 sides. Fragments of plasterwork still survive. The floor has fallen in. The lower level has a round-arched niche to four sides and a round- arched entrance.
D. Linstrum, West Yorkshire Architects & Architecture, 1978.
Listing NGR: SE2086216949
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 341178
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978)
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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