Gothic Temple in Grounds of Rainbow Wood
GOTHIC TEMPLE IN GROUNDS OF RAINBOW WOOD, WIDCOMBE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1395766
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Gothic Temple in Grounds of Rainbow Wood
- Statutory Address:
- GOTHIC TEMPLE IN GROUNDS OF RAINBOW WOOD, WIDCOMBE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1395766
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Gothic Temple in Grounds of Rainbow Wood
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOTHIC TEMPLE IN GROUNDS OF RAINBOW WOOD, WIDCOMBE HILL
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:
- GOTHIC TEMPLE IN GROUNDS OF RAINBOW WOOD, WIDCOMBE HILL
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 76611 63743
Details
WIDCOMBE HILL 656-1/58/1911 (South side) Gothic temple in grounds of Rainbow Wood
(Formerly Listed as: WIDCOMBE HILL (South side) Garden Pavilion in grounds of Rainbow Wood) 05/08/75
GV II*
Garden pavilion. 1745, by Richard Jones, removed from Prior Park to grounds of Rainbow Wood House (qv) in 1921. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, felt roof. PLAN: Square structure, with low-pitched pyramidal roof. EXTERIOR: Open three bay front carried on four Batty Langley columns of quatrefoil section, with two bands, on high bases and with decorative capitals, responds on main front at each end. Arches wide, low ogees with crowning crocket, under frieze band with lozenge and flute, with moulded cornice and crenellations with small pierced quatrefoils. Detail, including arches, returns in single bay at each end, over stone paving, with lower platform extending forward approx 2.5m for full width. Rear wall to arcade has two-light window with C14 geometrical tracery in fine moulded members, and central pair of plank doors to ogee arch, these all with drip courses. Main pavilion has plain sides, with cavetto eaves cornice to concealed gutters, and rear wall, partly set into slope of land, has two windows as front, and blind central panel with ogee head. INTERIOR: Walls have panelling with ogee intermediate band with florettes, and cusped heads below frieze with quatrefoils, all in low relief stone carving, rear wall has plain recess to ogee head, corresponding with doorway, and with similar panelling below flanking windows. Roof structure appears to be C20 replacement. HISTORY: A good example of Gothick garden buildings, once identified with Ralph Allen¿s highly important garden landscape. Early and playful version of Gothic Revival, building successfully removed and rebuilt in present location. SOURCES: G. Clarke, Prior Park: A Complete Landscape (1987), 55, 77; N. Jackson, Nineteenth Century Bath - Architects and Architecture (1991), 118.
Listing NGR: ST7661163743
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511177
- 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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