TEMPLE OF MERCURY 155 METRES EAST SOUTH EAST OF LYNFORD HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1342615
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1977
List Entry Name:: TEMPLE OF MERCURY 155 METRES EAST SOUTH EAST OF LYNFORD HALL
Statutory Address:: TEMPLE OF MERCURY 155 METRES EAST SOUTH EAST OF LYNFORD HALL

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Date:: 2001-11-26
Reference:: IOE01/05894/16
Rights:: © Mr John Giles. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1342615
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1977
List Entry Name:: TEMPLE OF MERCURY 155 METRES EAST SOUTH EAST OF LYNFORD HALL
Statutory Address 1:: TEMPLE OF MERCURY 155 METRES EAST SOUTH EAST OF LYNFORD HALL

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:: TEMPLE OF MERCURY 155 METRES EAST SOUTH EAST OF LYNFORD HALL

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: Breckland (District Authority)
Parish:: Lynford
National Grid Reference:: TL8208094025

Details

TL 89 SW TL 82079402 8/30

LYNFORD Temple of Mercury 155 metres east south east of Lynford Hall

26:8:77

GV II

Gazebo. Circa 1862. Designed by W.Burns. Limestone ashlar formerly with a lead or copper roof. Circular in plan with 6 Roman Doric columns on a polygonal 3-step crepidoma and a section of plain wall occupying about one third of the circumference. Continuous plain entablature supporting the remains of a wooden truss in the form of a hemi-spherical cupola. Formerly ceiled with sections of fallen plaster cornice surviving. Stone bench against wall.

Listing NGR: TL8208094025

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Legacy System number:: 220977
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 29 Norfolk,

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