Doric Temple
DORIC TEMPLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1193160
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Doric Temple
- Statutory Address:
- DORIC TEMPLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1193160
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Aug-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:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Wentworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 39930 97174
Details
SK39NE WENTWORTH WENTWORTH PARK
4/103 Doric Temple (formerly listed 29.4.52 with Wentworth Hoodhouse)
GV II*
Ornamental temple. c1745 by Henry Flitcroft (engraving) for Thomas Watson Wentworth. Sandstone ashlar. Open-sided octagon with vaulted dome, Doric. Each side has 3 nosed steps set between square stylobates of attached columns which have 4 bands of stalactite rustication. Round- arched opening to each side with moulded plinth, impost and archivolt with console-shaped keystone. Cornice breaks forward over columns to support ball finials each with band of stalactite rustication (two missing). Ashlar dome with stepped lower courses.
Interior: radial paving with octagonal central stone. Impost and archivolt to inside of arches. Cornice beneath vault. A well-preserved and important landscape feature of the park.
Engraving in Bodleian Library, Gough Maps 35, folio 48B. Related bills in Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments, drawer C, bundle 35, Sheffield City Library.
Listing NGR: SK3993097174
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335610
- 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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