Hexagon

The Hexagon is a park building located in Cirencester, built around 1736 and designed by Lord Bathurst. It is constructed from limestone ashlar with decorative vermiculated dressings, while the rear wall is made of limestone rubble. The roof is covered with Welsh slate and features a limestone ball finial at the apex. The building has an irregular hexagonal shape, with the rear wall being slightly wider than the other sides. It is a single-storey structure with round-headed openings that have vermiculated rusticated surrounds and impost blocks on three front faces, as well as similar blocked openings on the left and right sides.

The building is raised on a plinth approximately 3 feet high, which projects about 5 feet around the structure and is supported by an ashlar retaining wall with a shallow plinth and stone coping. There are five steps leading up to the center front of the building. The interior has been stripped of plaster and lacks a ceiling, featuring a concrete screed floor. There are 20th-century iron benches located in a round-headed niche in the rear wall, along with blocked arches on the left and right. The roof structure was also replaced in the 20th century.

Historically, the Hexagon was depicted on Rudder's plan of 1779 as a meeting place for three rides and three smaller walks, offering views of the Horse Temple, which has since been moved, and Hartley's Temple, which is now gone. The two arches on the left and right may have been blocked when the Broad Ride was extended eastward past the Hexagon after 1779.