Garden Temple At Holme Island House To South Of House Including Attached Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1975. Garden temple.
Garden Temple At Holme Island House To South Of House Including Attached Bridge
- WRENN ID
- first-spandrel-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1975
- Type
- Garden temple
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
GRANGE-OVER-SANDS
SD47NW MEATHOP ROAD, Holme Island 705-1/2/51 (East side (off)) 02/05/75 Garden Temple at Holme Island House, to S of house, including attached bridge
II
Garden temple. Probably mid C19. Limestone ashlar with cast-iron columns and lead-covered dome. Circular plan, surrounded by a moat spanned on the north side by a cast-iron bridge with limestone abutments and 'turned' iron balustrades. The temple is raised on 3 limestone steps and has 16 Corinthian columns supporting a circular entablature decorated with goats' heads and swags. The central drum has low windows on 4 sides and is capped by a dome. On the north side there are curved panelled double doors set in an architrave with a cornice on brackets. 3 round-headed niches face in the other cardinal directions. INTERIOR: not fully inspected. Appears to have 2 enriched cornices, a dome with mural painting, niches with leaf decoration to their spandrels, and a central rectangular block of stone. Holme Island House not included.
Listing NGR: SD4220878052
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