Chinese Temple And Attached Access Tunnel, Chinese Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 March 1974. Garden building, temple.
Chinese Temple And Attached Access Tunnel, Chinese Garden
- WRENN ID
- turning-plinth-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 March 1974
- Type
- Garden building, temple
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BIDDULPH C.P. BIDDULPH GRANGE SJ 85 NE SJ 8925 5913 7/6 Chinese Temple and - attached access tunnel, 20.3.74 Chinese Garden
GV II
Ornamental garden building ; Chinese temple. 1848-1860 by John Bateman. Painted blue, red and white timber and painted and rendered masonry. Single-cell temple and retaining screen wall: temple to right; 2-tiered pagoda roof with upturned eaves; fretwork supports and spandrels to masonry plinth. Painted low-relief Chinese patterns in render on screen wall to left (approximately 4m long x 1.5m high) concealing access tunnel which penetrates embankment forming boundary to entire Chinese Garden. The temple was intended by Bateman as the entrance and centrepiece of the perambulation of the Chinese Garden, a small enclosure of landscape features formed within perimeter mounds of massive imported local boulders. Semi-derelict at time of resurvey (September 1984).
Listing NGR: SJ8925859136
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