Garden Temple About 500 Metres East of Church of St John the Evangelist
GARDEN TEMPLE ABOUT 500 METRES EAST OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1349767
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Temple About 500 Metres East of Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address:
- GARDEN TEMPLE ABOUT 500 METRES EAST OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1349767
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Garden Temple About 500 Metres East of Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARDEN TEMPLE ABOUT 500 METRES EAST OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
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:
- GARDEN TEMPLE ABOUT 500 METRES EAST OF CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shobdon
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 40570 62818
Details
SHOBDON
SO 46 SW SHOBDON PARK
5/59 Garden Temple about 500
metres east of Church of
St John the Evangelist
GV II*
Garden temple. Probably c1750 for the 2nd Viscount Bateman, architect unknown. Yellow limestone (perhaps Bath) ashlar over Pennant stone steps; sandstone rubble and red brick rear wall; timber underside or roof; upper roof covered with corrugated iron at time of inspection. Tetrastyle prostyle temple, with four Ionic columns, splayed and with no mouldings at base. Pennant stone floor and steps (some missing) over foundations with brick arches. The architrave is enriched and the pulvinated frieze is decorated with a running foliage design flanking a central winged cherub's head. The centre of the pediment is enriched with modillions, six-leaved flowers on the soffit, and egg and dart mouldings, as is the principal cornice. The rear wall, with two Ionic pilasters, retains traces of render. Part of the notable improvements carried out a Shobdon Park around 1750 for the 2nd Viscount Bateman, and a structure possessed of considerable interest in terms of its unusual interpretation of the Ionic order. Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England (English Heritage), Part 20 Hereford and Worcester.
Listing NGR: SO4056862817
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 149462
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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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