Octagonal Temple Approximately 250 Metres To South West Of Shotover Park is a Grade II* listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. A Early Victorian Garden temple.
Octagonal Temple Approximately 250 Metres To South West Of Shotover Park
- WRENN ID
- long-storey-hemlock
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Garden temple
- Period
- Early Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
FOREST HILL WITH SHOTOVER SHOTOVER SP50NE 5/91 Octagonal Temple approx. 250m. 18/07/63 to SW of Shotover Park
GV II*
Garden temple. c.1835. By William Kent for General James Tyrrell. Limestone ashlar. Octagonal plan. 4 sides break forward and contain archways with projecting keyblocks and imposts set in chamfered rustication; remaining sides have round-headed niches in smooth ashlar. Above a heavy cornice is the stepped stone base to a former lead-clad dome, parts of the wooden structure of which survive. The temple stands on a high mound and forms a focal point in the important early C18 formal layout of the garden. (C. Hussey, Country Life, Vol.LIX, pp.240-6; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.V, p.276; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.765).
Listing NGR: SP5822706531
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