Garden Temple To South West Of Prideaux Place is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1988. Garden temple.
Garden Temple To South West Of Prideaux Place
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-string-onyx
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1988
- Type
- Garden temple
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
PADSTOW PRIDEAUX PLACE, Padstow SW 9075-9175 8/129 Garden Temple to south west of Prideaux Place
GV II*
Garden temple. 1738-9 by Edmund Prideaux. Stuccoed stone rubble and brick and ashlar stone. A small tetrastyle Ionic temple, the end columns engage the antae (not idstyle in antis), the whole raised on a stylobate with a flight of steps at the front. The pediment is finely dentilled. The temple has a shallow rectangular plan and its side and rear walls are unpierced. Remains of 2 later C19 columns with swags which originally framed an alley in front of the temple, now lying behind the temple. The temple was one of several garden buildings built by Edmund Prideaux and is illustrated in drawings of the east front and garden both by Prideaux in the 1730s and by Borlase in 1758. Cornforth, J. 'Prideaux Place, Cornwall - II' Country Life, February 8, 1962. Kelly, F.HBMC report. Prideaux Place, Padstow. Cornwall.
Listing NGR: SW9131075540
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