THE TEMPLE OF BRITISH WORTHIES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1211946
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: THE TEMPLE OF BRITISH WORTHIES
Statutory Address:: THE TEMPLE OF BRITISH WORTHIES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1211946
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: THE TEMPLE OF BRITISH WORTHIES
Statutory Address 1:: THE TEMPLE OF BRITISH WORTHIES

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE TEMPLE OF BRITISH WORTHIES

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stowe
National Grid Reference:: SP 67774 37264

Details

SP 6737 STOWE

9/77 STOWE SCHOOL The Temple of British Worthies

25.9.51 GV I

Garden monument of circa 1735 by Kent. Curved wall with a series of pedimented niches with rusticated arches each enclosing a portrait bust of a 'Worthy'. In the centre a high stepped pyramid with oval niche. Busts by Rysbrack and Scheemakers.

Listing NGR: SP6777437264

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Legacy System number:: 396474
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 4 Buckinghamshire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.