Garden Temple to South West of Prideaux Place
GARDEN TEMPLE TO SOUTH WEST OF PRIDEAUX PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1212199
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Temple to South West of Prideaux Place
- Statutory Address:
- GARDEN TEMPLE TO SOUTH WEST OF PRIDEAUX PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1212199
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Temple to South West of Prideaux Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARDEN TEMPLE TO SOUTH WEST OF PRIDEAUX PLACE
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:
- GARDEN TEMPLE TO SOUTH WEST OF PRIDEAUX PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Padstow
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 91310 75540
Details
PADSTOW PRIDEAUX PLACE, Padstow SW 9075-9175 8/129 Garden Temple to south west of Prideaux Place
GV II*
Garden temple. 1738-9 by Edmund Prideaux. Stuccoed stone rubble and brick and ashlar stone. A small tetrastyle Ionic temple, the end columns engage the antae (not idstyle in antis), the whole raised on a stylobate with a flight of steps at the front. The pediment is finely dentilled. The temple has a shallow rectangular plan and its side and rear walls are unpierced. Remains of 2 later C19 columns with swags which originally framed an alley in front of the temple, now lying behind the temple. The temple was one of several garden buildings built by Edmund Prideaux and is illustrated in drawings of the east front and garden both by Prideaux in the 1730s and by Borlase in 1758. Cornforth, J. 'Prideaux Place, Cornwall - II' Country Life, February 8, 1962. Kelly, F.HBMC report. Prideaux Place, Padstow. Cornwall.
Listing NGR: SW9131075540
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 396696
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 8 February, (1962)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 8 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly,
Kelly, Francis , Prideaux Place Padstow Cornwall, Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission Report,
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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