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Latitude: 50.3533 / 50°21'11"N
Longitude: -4.1701 / 4°10'12"W
OS Eastings: 245714
OS Northings: 52625
OS Grid: SX457526
Mapcode National: GBR NV.W2PJ
Mapcode Global: FRA 2843.K5V
Plus Code: 9C2Q9R3H+8X
Entry Name: Temple of Milton
Listing Date: 23 January 1968
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1140616
English Heritage Legacy ID: 61857
ID on this website: 101140616
Location: Mount Edgcumbe Country Park, Cremyll, Cornwall, PL10
County: Cornwall
Civil Parish: Maker-with-Rame
Traditional County: Cornwall
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Church of England Parish: Maker
Church of England Diocese: Truro
Tagged with: Architectural structure
SX 45 SE MAKER-WITH-RAME MOUNT EDGCUMBE COUNTRY PARK
7/200 Temple of Milton
25.1.68
GV II*
Temple. Late C18. 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.
Listing NGR: SX4571452625
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