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:: GARDEN TEMPLE TO SOUTH WEST OF PRIDEAUX PLACE

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 396696
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Country Life' in 8 February, (1962)
Other
Kelly, Francis , Prideaux Place Padstow Cornwall, Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission Report,
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 8 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.