Doric Temple and Steps to Lakeside Pool
DORIC TEMPLE AND STEPS TO LAKESIDE POOL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1210685
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Doric Temple and Steps to Lakeside Pool
- Statutory Address:
- DORIC TEMPLE AND STEPS TO LAKESIDE POOL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1210685
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Doric Temple and Steps to Lakeside Pool
- Statutory Address 1:
- DORIC TEMPLE AND STEPS TO LAKESIDE POOL
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 AND STEPS TO LAKESIDE POOL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- North Nibley
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 73909 96864
Details
In the entry for:- NORTH NIBLEY STANCOMBE PARK ST 73 96 8/130 Doric Temple and steps to lakeside pool
the grade shall be amended to read: Grade II* (star)
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NORTH NIBLEY STANCOMBE PARK ST 7396 8/130 Doric Temple and steps to lakeside pool GV II
Summer house and steps to lakeside conduit-fed pool. c1860 for Rev. David Edwards. Limestone ashlar. Flat roof inaccessible for inspection. Classical. Single-storey; rectangular with porticoes and columned arcading to front. Central tetrastyle pedimented Roman Doric portico; central window in wall behind with moulded architrave and console-bracketed cornice. Areas recessed either side of portico behind 2-columned arcading. Projecting distyle porticoes at each end with single window to wall behind each with moulded architrave and console-bracketed cornice. Windows contain leaded fixed-lights with stained glass margins. Continuous entablature. Square porch at north end with moulded round-headed archway; smaller round-headed archways in sides of porch; 6-panel door. Canted bay to south end with small windows in canted sides and central parapet-mounted moulded chimney. Interior: long central room with coffered-coving to ceiling and central roof light. Two-column marble Ionic end screens; recesses at mid length on either side with columns distyle in antis. Long narrow flight of stone steps lead from centre of front elevation down to circular stone-sided pool projecting into lake. One of a sequence of features in the very extensive Regency and early Victorian landscaped park and pleasure garden. Groups with Parker's Lodge and The Studio (q.v.). (B. Jones, Follies and Grottoes, 1974; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979.)
Listing NGR: ST7390996864
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395230
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
Jones, B, Follies and Grottoes, (1974)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 16 Gloucestershire,
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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