Temple Of Theseus About 1/2 Mile North Of Hagley Hall

SO 28 SW HAGLEY CP WYCHBURY HILL

2/134 Temple of Theseus about ½ mile north of 23.4.52 Hagley Hall (Formerly listed with item 2/133 above)

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Temple folly. 1758 by James "Athenian" Stuart for George First Lord Lyttleton; restored and partly rebuilt late C20. Sandstone ashlar and brick with shallow- pitched roof of coated steel. Rectangular plan in form of miniature replica of a Greek Doric hexastyle prostyle temple having arris fluted columns with entasis and no bases, a triglyph frieze and mutule cornice; three-stepped stylobate; rectangular opening in each side elevation. The building is recorded as being a miniature replica of the C6 BC Theseion in Athens. It was designed by Stuart shortly after he visited Athens from 1751-5 to measure the buildings. It is the earliest C18 building to have been directly copied from an Ancient Greek original and is the first building outside Greece and her colonies in which the Greek Doric order is correctly used. The columns and much of the stonework were rebuilt late C20. [CL articles (mainly Vol 122, p 546 & 608); BoE, p 178).

Listing NGR: SO9213181352