Temple Ornament
TEMPLE ORNAMENT, CHAPEL ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395513
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Temple Ornament
- Statutory Address:
- TEMPLE ORNAMENT, CHAPEL ROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395513
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Temple Ornament
- Statutory Address 1:
- TEMPLE ORNAMENT, CHAPEL ROW
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 ORNAMENT, CHAPEL ROW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 74733 64945
Details
CHAPEL ROW (North side)
Temple Ornament
GV II
Aedicular monument. 1876, using pieces from 1732-1734 (see below). MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar. Monument on square plan, with four slender Ionic columns, and fifth, central column of more sturdy proportions. These carry entablature brought forward with segment each side, circle on square, with pyramidal capping slightly concave profile, and large ball finial. Columns on base slab with chamfered edge, with concave segmental curves, reversing play of square and circle in entablature, and on set back square podium. Monument c3.5m high, 1.25m square. Base has tablet recording that `Temple Ornament' was "Re-erected in 1976 after its restoration by students of Bath Technical College". Monument lies on verge, immediately south of No.14, Queen Square (qv). Stands on site of St. Mary's Chapel, Queen Square, by John Wood the Elder, built 1732-1734 and demolished for road widening c1875 to coincide with opening of Green Park station, then called Queen Square. This picturesque assemblage was formed from relics of Wood¿s Chapel. Compare the surviving columns from the chapel¿s portico, re-erected in garden of No.4 Cleveland Place West. SOURCES: Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath: Bath: 1980-: 54; The Bath Chronicle: Images of Bath: Derby: 1994-.
Listing NGR: ST7473364945
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510918
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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