Temple in Garden of Purbeck House
TEMPLE IN GARDEN OF PURBECK HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323605
- Date first listed:
- 21-Mar-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Temple in Garden of Purbeck House
- Statutory Address:
- TEMPLE IN GARDEN OF PURBECK HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/06765/26
- Rights:
- © Mr JE Leeson. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323605
- Date first listed:
- 21-Mar-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Temple in Garden of Purbeck House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TEMPLE IN GARDEN OF PURBECK HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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:
- TEMPLE IN GARDEN OF PURBECK HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Swanage
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ0298978642
Details
1.
5190
SZ 0278 NE
5/90
HIGH STREET
(south side)
Temple in garden of Purbeck House
II
2.
Built after 1878 by George Burt. Square on plan with a tiled roof of concave profile
surmounted by terra-cotta dragons, supported on stone Tuscan columns from the toll-
houses removed from John Rennie's Waterloo Bridge (C1817 - re-erected c1878). Raised
on a stone terrace with balustrated parapet and approached by stone steps. Floor paved
with encaustic tiles removed from the House of Commons c1880. Three mutilated stone
statues in front of the Temple, from the second Royal Exchange. Two may be of
Edward I and Henry V (RCEII) - probably C17. Purbeck House and its ancillary buildings
are listed for their historic interest in connection with George Burt and for the large
number of relics of older London buildings. See "Curiosities of Swanage, or Old London
by sea", by David Lewen ARIBA and J Bernard Calkin MAFSA. RCHM Monument 40.
Listing NGR: SZ0298978642
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108216
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lewen, , Calkin, , Curiosities of Swanage or Old London by the Sea, ()
Inventory of Dorset, (1970)
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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