The Temple of Flora
THE TEMPLE OF FLORA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1318472
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Temple of Flora
- Statutory Address:
- THE TEMPLE OF FLORA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1318472
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Temple of Flora
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE TEMPLE OF FLORA
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:
- THE TEMPLE OF FLORA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stourton with Gasper
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 77423 34015
Details
STOURTON WITH GASPER STOURHEAD GARDENS ST 73 SE (east side) 6/147 The Temple of Flora 6.1.66 GV I Temple. 1744-46 by Henry Flitcroft for Henry Hoare. Limestone ashlar and stucco, hipped slate roof. Tetrastyle Doric portico, entablature with triglyphs and bucrania, moulded pediment. Central double doors with 6 fielded panels in moulded architrave with broken pediment, Latin inscription from the Aeneid over door, large 12-pane sash either side. Side walls are blind, rendered. Rectangular interior has semi-circular niche on back wall containing a Coade stone copy of the Borghese Vase, made by Daniel Pincot c1772. Circular niches on side walls contain marble female busts. The Temple also contains an important contemporary group of altars and seats or pulvinaria, copies of those in Montfaucon's Supplement to Antiquity Explained, 1725. The Temple was one of Henry Hoare's first features in the gardens, pre-dating the lake, the mason responsible was William Privet of Chilmark. The Borghese Vase was originally in the Venetian Seat, dismantled 1790s by Colt Hoare. (K. Woodbridge, The Stourhead Landscape, 1982)
Listing NGR: ST7742334017
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321253
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Woodbridge, K, The Stourhead Landscape, (1982)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 46 Wiltshire,
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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