Doric Temple Rievaulx, England
Listed Building Data
Doric Temple has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1149251
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 4 January 1955
- Name
- DORIC TEMPLE
- Location
- DORIC TEMPLE
- Parish
- Rievaulx
- District
- Ryedale
- County
- North Yorkshire
- Grid Reference
- SE 57732 84407
- Easting
- 457732.4670
- Northing
- 484406.9340
Listed Building Description
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SE 58 SE RIEVAULX RIEVAULX TERRACE
5/121 Doric Temple (Formerly listed as 4.1.55 Tuscan Temple on Rievaulx Terrace)
GV I
Temple. Wrongly shown on OS map as Tuscan Temple. 1758. Probably by Sir Thomas Robinson. Sandstone ashlar, lead roof. Circular, peripteral dodecastyle plan. Doric columns raised on podium. 10 steps to half- glazed fielded-panel door. 3 round-headed sash windows with thick glazing bars. Metope and triglyph frieze with paterae and bocrania. Low drum and hemispherical dome. Interior: Medieval floor tiles from Rievaulx Abbey. Door beneath pediment carried on brackets. Swags and heads above windows. Moulded modillion cornice with leaf frieze. Coffered ceiling with painting of Ganymede in centre. Pevsner, Yorkshire: The North Riding, 1966; Hussey, 'Duncombe Park, Yorkshire - II', Country Life, December 12, 1957.
Listing NGR: SE5773384408
