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Latitude: 54.874 / 54°52'26"N
Longitude: -2.8303 / 2°49'49"W
OS Eastings: 346818
OS Northings: 553562
OS Grid: NY468535
Mapcode National: GBR 8DP2.1L
Mapcode Global: WH804.HRGD
Plus Code: 9C6VV5F9+HV
Entry Name: Tempietto, Corby Castle
Listing Date: 1 April 1957
Last Amended: 22 September 1983
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1335537
English Heritage Legacy ID: 77728
ID on this website: 101335537
Location: Wetheral, Cumberland, Cumbria, CA4
County: Cumbria
District: Carlisle
Civil Parish: Wetheral
Traditional County: Cumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Wetheral Holy Trinity and St Constantine
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
Tagged with: Castle
WETHERAL GREAT CORBY
NY 45 SE
9/146 Tempietto , Corby
Castle (formerly
1. 4. 57. listed under Corby
Castle)
I
Garden folly. Early C18 for Thomas Howard of Corby Castle. Stone walls,
stucco, slate roof and stone chimney. In the form of a Tuscan temple. Stone
steps with stone piers surmounted by carved balls, lead to portico supported by
4 Tuscan columns on square bases with moulded entablature. Carving of draped
figures with fish-like tails in pediment above. Gabled roof has round stone
chimney stack to south gable. Entrance has moulded surround with entablature
and heavily dentilled pediment: interior of portico has plain stucco walls with
moulded plaster ceiling: door of 6 panels. 2 vaulted chambers beneath with 2
entrances from west, have plank doors, one with initials P.H.H. cut through it:
side window above, has wooden casements with square leaded lights, but a similar
window in east wall has been filled. Interior of single room, walls of painted
panels of Alpine scenes by Matthew Nutter of Carlisle, 1832, and painted roundel
to ceiling. Building appears on an engraving of 1729 and as Thomas Howard
succeeded to the estate in 1708, it must have been built between those dates.
Terminates a garden riverside walk from Corby Castle. Interior and exterior
views; Country Life, 7 January 1954, p.35.
Listing NGR: NY4681753561
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