Temple of Theseus About 1/2 Mile North of Hagley Hall
TEMPLE OF THESEUS ABOUT 1/2 MILE NORTH OF HAGLEY HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1348599
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Temple of Theseus About 1/2 Mile North of Hagley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TEMPLE OF THESEUS ABOUT 1/2 MILE NORTH OF HAGLEY HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1348599
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Temple of Theseus About 1/2 Mile North of Hagley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TEMPLE OF THESEUS ABOUT 1/2 MILE NORTH OF HAGLEY HALL
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 OF THESEUS ABOUT 1/2 MILE NORTH OF HAGLEY HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Bromsgrove (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hagley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 92132 81351
Details
SO 28 SW HAGLEY CP WYCHBURY HILL
2/134 Temple of Theseus about ½ mile north of 23.4.52 Hagley Hall (Formerly listed with item 2/133 above)
I
Temple folly. 1758 by James "Athenian" Stuart for George First Lord Lyttleton; restored and partly rebuilt late C20. Sandstone ashlar and brick with shallow- pitched roof of coated steel. Rectangular plan in form of miniature replica of a Greek Doric hexastyle prostyle temple having arris fluted columns with entasis and no bases, a triglyph frieze and mutule cornice; three-stepped stylobate; rectangular opening in each side elevation. The building is recorded as being a miniature replica of the C6 BC Theseion in Athens. It was designed by Stuart shortly after he visited Athens from 1751-5 to measure the buildings. It is the earliest C18 building to have been directly copied from an Ancient Greek original and is the first building outside Greece and her colonies in which the Greek Doric order is correctly used. The columns and much of the stonework were rebuilt late C20. [CL articles (mainly Vol 122, p 546 & 608); BoE, p 178).
Listing NGR: SO9213181352
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 156399
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 178
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 122, (), 546+608
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 20 Hereford and Worcester,
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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