Rotunda Temple
ROTUNDA TEMPLE, STAINBOROUGH PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1191615
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Rotunda Temple
- Statutory Address:
- ROTUNDA TEMPLE, STAINBOROUGH PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1191615
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Rotunda Temple
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROTUNDA TEMPLE, STAINBOROUGH PARK
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:
- ROTUNDA TEMPLE, STAINBOROUGH PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Stainborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 32786 02722
Details
STAINBOROUGH STAINBOROUGH PARK SE30SW 1/40 Rotunda Temple (formerly listed as Rotunda Temple, 18.3.68 Wentworth Castle)
- II* Ornamental temple. Dated 1746. For the 2nd Earl of Strafford. Ashlar sandstone. Ionic peristyle rotunda set on raised platform. Platform has moulded plinth and cornice and is approached by curved steps on west side having flanking wing walls. 14 columns support full entablature with bayleaf frieze, mutules and lions' heads carved on the cornice. The dome has fallen in. A central cylindrical drum has blocked doorway at top of steps with architrave, bay-leaf frieze and cornice, festoons and wreaths over. Square-headed and semi-domed niches set round, the inscription ' S / 1746 ' within wreath on side opposite steps. Built during the early 1740s, having been started for the 1st Earl (d1739) by Joseph Bower (estate mason). Modelled on the temple of Tivoli at Rome.
J. Wilkinson, Worthies, Families and Celebrities of Barnsley and the District, 1883 pp419-420.
Listing NGR: SE3278602722
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333915
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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