List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: THE TEMPLE OF FLORA
List Entry Number: 1318472
Location
THE TEMPLE OF FLORA
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Wiltshire
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Stourton with Gasper
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: I
Date first listed: 06-Jan-1966
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 321253
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List Entry Description
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History
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Details
STOURTON WITH GASPER STOURHEAD GARDENS
ST 73 SE
(east side)
6/147 The Temple of Flora
6.1.66
GV I
Temple. 1744-46 by Henry Flitcroft for Henry Hoare. Limestone
ashlar and stucco, hipped slate roof. Tetrastyle Doric portico,
entablature with triglyphs and bucrania, moulded pediment. Central
double doors with 6 fielded panels in moulded architrave with
broken pediment, Latin inscription from the Aeneid over door, large
12-pane sash either side. Side walls are blind, rendered.
Rectangular interior has semi-circular niche on back wall
containing a Coade stone copy of the Borghese Vase, made by Daniel
Pincot c1772. Circular niches on side walls contain marble female
busts. The Temple also contains an important contemporary group of
altars and seats or pulvinaria, copies of those in Montfaucon's
Supplement to Antiquity Explained, 1725. The Temple was one of
Henry Hoare's first features in the gardens, pre-dating the lake,
the mason responsible was William Privet of Chilmark. The Borghese
Vase was originally in the Venetian Seat, dismantled 1790s by Colt
Hoare.
(K. Woodbridge, The Stourhead Landscape, 1982)
Listing NGR: ST7742334017
Selected Sources
Books and journalsWoodbridge, K , The Stourhead Landscape, (1982)
OtherRegister of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 46 Wiltshire,
Map
National Grid Reference: ST 77423 34015
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