Doric Temple is a Grade I listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 January 1955. Temple.
Doric Temple
- WRENN ID
- quartered-vestry-meadow
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 January 1955
- Type
- Temple
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Doric Temple, originally listed as the Tuscan Temple, is a Grade I listed building located on Rievaulx Terrace, constructed in 1758 and likely designed by Sir Thomas Robinson. This temple is made of sandstone ashlar and features a lead roof. It has a circular, peripteral dodecastyle plan supported by Doric columns that are raised on a podium. Access is provided by 10 steps leading to a half-glazed fielded-panel door. The structure includes three round-headed sash windows with thick glazing bars, and it is adorned with a metope and triglyph frieze featuring paterae and bocrania. The temple has a low drum and a hemispherical dome.
Inside, the temple showcases medieval floor tiles sourced from Rievaulx Abbey. A door beneath the pediment is supported by brackets, and there are decorative swags and heads above the windows. The interior also features a moulded modillion cornice with a leaf frieze, a coffered ceiling, and a central painting of Ganymede.
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