TEMPLE OF DIANA IN THE WILDERNESS GARDEN AT ADLINGTON HALL

TEMPLE OF DIANA IN THE WILDERNESS GARDEN AT ADLINGTON HALL, MILL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1276235
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: TEMPLE OF DIANA IN THE WILDERNESS GARDEN AT ADLINGTON HALL
Statutory Address:: TEMPLE OF DIANA IN THE WILDERNESS GARDEN AT ADLINGTON HALL, MILL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1276235
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: TEMPLE OF DIANA IN THE WILDERNESS GARDEN AT ADLINGTON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: TEMPLE OF DIANA IN THE WILDERNESS GARDEN AT ADLINGTON HALL, MILL LANE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TEMPLE OF DIANA IN THE WILDERNESS GARDEN AT ADLINGTON HALL, MILL LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Adlington
National Grid Reference:: SJ 90464 80010

Details

SJ 98 SW ADLINGTON C.P. MILL LANE (South Side)

3/22 Temple of Diana in the Wilderness Garden at Adlington Hall.

II

Domed circular temple: mid C18 for Charles Legh. Ashlar buff sandstone, felted roof. Stylobate supports 6 Roman Doric columns with full entablature. Replaced golden crescent finial. Soffit of dome is panelled with scrolls and garlands.

Appears on a painting of 1760 of the hall and gardens by James Shrigley, hanging in the hall.

Listing NGR: SJ9046480010

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 58188
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.