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Latitude: 57.6922 / 57°41'31"N
Longitude: -2.8329 / 2°49'58"W
OS Eastings: 350444
OS Northings: 867231
OS Grid: NJ504672
Mapcode National: GBR M8CD.8Z5
Mapcode Global: WH7KD.GX7H
Plus Code: 9C9VM5R8+VR
Entry Name: Temple Of Pomona, Cullen House
Listing Name: Cullen House, Temple of Pomona
Listing Date: 22 February 1972
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 349159
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB15520
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Cullen House, Temple Of Pomona
ID on this website: 200349159
Location: Rathven
County: Moray
Electoral Ward: Keith and Cullen
Parish: Rathven
Traditional County: Banffshire
Tagged with: Folly
William Robertson, 1822 (possibly after a design by James
Playfair, 1788). Hilltop polished ashlar open rotunda built
above and supported by partially exposed circular basement
tearoom. Rotunda entablature supported by 8 Ionic columns
above which is leaded dome with corniced plaster ceiling and
decorative centre rose.
Bowed 3-bay front to tearoom flanked by curved screen walls;
centre round-headed doorway and similar flanking windows; gutted/circular chamber with remains of alternate apsed and
rectangular niches; no ceiling or rotunda floor survives.
Circular plinth (formerly standing in centre of rotunda and
supporting now lost statue of Pomona) stands in centre of
tearoom floor.
Tearoom gutted and monument stabilised 1977-8.
Statue of Pomona (more probably of Fame) lost between
1939-45.
James Playfair's temple unexecuted but drawings in Seafield
papers.
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