Chinese Temple and Attached Access Tunnel, Chinese Garden
CHINESE TEMPLE AND ATTACHED ACCESS TUNNEL, CHINESE GARDEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1374723
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Chinese Temple and Attached Access Tunnel, Chinese Garden
- Statutory Address:
- CHINESE TEMPLE AND ATTACHED ACCESS TUNNEL, CHINESE GARDEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1374723
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Chinese Temple and Attached Access Tunnel, Chinese Garden
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHINESE TEMPLE AND ATTACHED ACCESS TUNNEL, CHINESE GARDEN
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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:
- CHINESE TEMPLE AND ATTACHED ACCESS TUNNEL, CHINESE GARDEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Biddulph
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 89258 59136
Details
BIDDULPH C.P. BIDDULPH GRANGE SJ 85 NE SJ 8925 5913 7/6 Chinese Temple and - attached access tunnel, 20.3.74 Chinese Garden
GV II
Ornamental garden building ; Chinese temple. 1848-1860 by John Bateman. Painted blue, red and white timber and painted and rendered masonry. Single-cell temple and retaining screen wall: temple to right; 2-tiered pagoda roof with upturned eaves; fretwork supports and spandrels to masonry plinth. Painted low-relief Chinese patterns in render on screen wall to left (approximately 4m long x 1.5m high) concealing access tunnel which penetrates embankment forming boundary to entire Chinese Garden. The temple was intended by Bateman as the entrance and centrepiece of the perambulation of the Chinese Garden, a small enclosure of landscape features formed within perimeter mounds of massive imported local boulders. Semi-derelict at time of resurvey (September 1984).
Listing NGR: SJ8925859136
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275211
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 38 Staffordshire,
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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