Garendon Park, The Temple Of Venus is a Grade II* listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1965. Temple. 2 related planning applications.
Garendon Park, The Temple Of Venus
- WRENN ID
- dusted-basalt-grain
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1965
- Type
- Temple
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SK 4919 ASHBY ROAD 9/12 (north side)
15.3.65 Garendon Park, The Temple of Venus GV II*
Temple, of the 1730s, by Ambrose Phillipps of Garendon (d.1737). Of ashlar, with carved oak entablature and copper dome. Circular plan, loosely based on the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli. Raised on 4 steps, with a peristyle of Ionic columns. Entablature painted white, with the frieze of ox skulls and small bays with swags between. The roof member of the cornice has lions' heads at intervals. The centre of the temple has a circular apartment with rusticated walls, classical doorcase and 2-fold fielded-panel door. The interior originally contained a statue of Venus, now lost, perhaps destroyed by Luddite rioters in 1811. Mark Aironard, "Ambrose Phillipps of Garendon", Architectural History, 1965.
Listing NGR: SK4979019057
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