Rotunda Temple is a Grade II* listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1968. A Georgian Ornamental temple.
Rotunda Temple
- WRENN ID
- rough-gallery-violet
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnsley
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1968
- Type
- Ornamental temple
- Period
- Georgian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
STAINBOROUGH STAINBOROUGH PARK SE30SW 1/40 Rotunda Temple (formerly listed as Rotunda Temple, 18.3.68 Wentworth Castle)
- II* Ornamental temple. Dated 1746. For the 2nd Earl of Strafford. Ashlar sandstone. Ionic peristyle rotunda set on raised platform. Platform has moulded plinth and cornice and is approached by curved steps on west side having flanking wing walls. 14 columns support full entablature with bayleaf frieze, mutules and lions' heads carved on the cornice. The dome has fallen in. A central cylindrical drum has blocked doorway at top of steps with architrave, bay-leaf frieze and cornice, festoons and wreaths over. Square-headed and semi-domed niches set round, the inscription ' S / 1746 ' within wreath on side opposite steps. Built during the early 1740s, having been started for the 1st Earl (d1739) by Joseph Bower (estate mason). Modelled on the temple of Tivoli at Rome.
J. Wilkinson, Worthies, Families and Celebrities of Barnsley and the District, 1883 pp419-420.
Listing NGR: SE3278602722
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