Temple of Flora Approximately 160 Metres North East of Nuneham House
TEMPLE OF FLORA APPROXIMATELY 160 METRES NORTH EAST OF NUNEHAM HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368716
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Temple of Flora Approximately 160 Metres North East of Nuneham House
- Statutory Address:
- TEMPLE OF FLORA APPROXIMATELY 160 METRES NORTH EAST OF NUNEHAM HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368716
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Temple of Flora Approximately 160 Metres North East of Nuneham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TEMPLE OF FLORA APPROXIMATELY 160 METRES NORTH EAST OF NUNEHAM HOUSE
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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 FLORA APPROXIMATELY 160 METRES NORTH EAST OF NUNEHAM HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Nuneham Courtenay
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 54213 98221
Details
NUNEHAM COURTENAY NUNEHAM PARK SU5498 12/87 Temple of Flora approx. 160m. NE of Nuneham House
GV II
Garden temple. c.1771. Rendered brick with wooden columns and pediment. Rectangular plan. Greek-Doric style. Open front forms a portico with 2 fluted columns in antis supporting a triglyph frieze and a triangular pediment with mutules. Sides and rear are plain. Interior: rear wall has an oval relief of Flora above a moulded panel containing lines from Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso". The temple formed the architectural focus of the innovatory flower garden designed in 1771 by the Reverend William Masons author of "The English Flower Garden", for Lord Nuneham, afterwards the 2nd Earl Harcourt. The building resembles illustrations in James Stuart's "The Antiqities of Athens" and may have been designed by Stuart who was consulted over Nuneham House (q.v.) and All Saints' Church (q.v.). Nunaham Park is included in the HBMC County Register of Gardens at Grade I; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.V, p.234; W. Batey: "Nuneham Courtenay", 1970, p.25; G. Worsley: "Nuneham Park Revisited II", Country Life, Vol.177, p,66).
Listing NGR: SU5421398221
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248324
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Batey, M, Nuneham Courtenay, (1970), 25
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1957), 234
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 177, (1985), 66
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire
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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