The Temple
THE TEMPLE, THE ESPLANADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380996
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Temple
- Statutory Address:
- THE TEMPLE, THE ESPLANADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380996
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Temple
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE TEMPLE, THE ESPLANADE
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:
- THE TEMPLE, THE ESPLANADE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 33364 03349
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3303SW THE ESPLANADE, Kemp Town
577-1/55/900 (East side)
13/10/52 The Temple
II
Garden temple. c1835. Designed by William Kendall, the
architect who laid out Madeira Drive and the Esplanade and who
also designed the Esplanade Cottages and Reading Room (qv).
Stucco. Roof obscured by parapet and C20 walkway.
PLAN: rectangular, set into embankment.
EXTERIOR: main elevation treated as a round-arched arcade of 3
bays with a return of one bay. Each pier is composite formed
from a plain pier with springing band for the arches to which
has been applied a Tuscan pilaster which supports an
entablature running just above the top of the arcade. End
walls treated as rusticated piers across which the dentil
cornice of the entablature runs.
Return of single bay to same design to the right.
Kemp Town constitutes a most important group and consists of
Arundel Terrace, Chichester Terrace, Lewes Crescent, Sussex
Square and related buildings.
Forms part of a group with the former Old Reading Room,
Esplanade Cottages and the tunnel entrance (qv).
(Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-: 81).
Listing NGR: TQ3334703360
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481339
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990), 81
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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