Temple Of Milton is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1968. Temple. 1 related planning application.
Temple Of Milton
- WRENN ID
- wild-glass-indigo
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1968
- Type
- Temple
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SX 45 SE MAKER-WITH-RAME MOUNT EDGCUMBE COUNTRY PARK
7/200 Temple of Milton 25.1.68 GV II*
Temple. Late C18. Rendered limestone. Circular plan, on plinth of 4 granite steps. 5 open bays to front, with Ionic columns, engaged half-column to each side, frieze and modillion cornice, blocking course and domed roof. Interior Frieze and dentil cornice below domed plaster roof, rear wall has round- headed niche, with marble tablet over with quotation from Milton's Paradise Lost, Book IV: "Over head up grow Insuperable height of loftiest shade; Cedar and fir and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of Statliest view." The Temple is shown on an engraving by John Crook dated 1819.
Listing NGR: SX4571452625
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