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| HER Number: | MCO68286 |
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| Name: | MOUNT EDGCUMBE - Late C18 temple |
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Summary
Extant late C18 temple
Protected Status
- Listed Building (II*) 61857: TEMPLE OF MILTON
Other Statuses/Codes: none recorded
Monument Type(s):
Full description
Extant late C18 temple. Rendered limestone. Circular plan, on plinth of 4 granite steps. 5 open bays to front, with Ionic columns, engaged half-column to each side, frieze and modillion cornice, blocking course and domed roof. Interior Frieze and dentil cornice below domed plaster roof, rear wall has round- headed niche, with marble tablet over with quotation from Milton's Paradise Lost, Book IV: "Over head up grow Insuperable height of loftiest shade; Cedar and fir and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of Statliest view." The Temple is shown on an engraving by John Crook dated 1819.
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events
- ECO6712 - Archaeological Survey and Recording of selected works at Mount Edgcumbe Country Park, Cornwall - Draft (Ref: 2016R080)
Related records
| 6233 | Part of: MOUNT EDGCUMBE - Medieval fortified house, Post Medieval fortified house (Monument) |
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