Moray HER - NJ56NW0044 - TEMPLE OF POMONA, CULLEN

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Primary ReferenceNJ56NW0044
NameTEMPLE OF POMONA, CULLEN
NRHE Card No.NJ56NW6
NRHE Numlink 118293
HES SM No. NULL
HES LB No. 15520
Site Form Standing Structure
Site Condition Complete 2
Details Temple of Pomona, built by William Robertson in 1822, possibly after a design by James Playfair, 1788, which was never executed but drawings are in the Seafield papers. It is a garden feature in the Cullen House (NJ56NW0003) estate. It sits on a hilltop, and is a polished ashlar open rotunda that is built above, and supported by, a partially exposed circular basement tea room, a private venue for ladies to take tea. The rotunda entablature is supported by eight Ionic columns, above which is leaded dome with corniced plaster ceiling and decorative centre rose. The bowed 3-bay front to the tea room is flanked by curved screen walls. There is a central round-headed doorway and similar flanking windows, with the remains of alternate apsed and rectangular niches. No ceiling or rotunda floor survives. A circular plinth for a statue (now lost) once stood in the centre of the rotunda, and now stands in the centre of the tearoom floor. Tearoom gutted and monument stabilised 1977 and 1978. The statue, which is probably actually representing Fame, was of a winged lady blowing a trumpet. was lost sometime between 1939 and 1945. The building was restored in 1981 after a threat of demolition. It is also known as the Temple of Fame.
Last Update15/03/2022
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Monument Type 1Monument Type 2Monument Type 3OrderProbability
BUILDINGSGARDENTEMPLEA100
ROTUNDAS  B100
COLUMNS IONICC100
DOMES LEAD-LINEDD100
ROSESPLASTER E100
TEAROOMS REMAINS OFF100
SCREENSCURVED G100
DOORWAYS ROUND-HEADEDH100
NICHESRECTANGULAR I100
PLINTHS  J100
STATUES SITE OFK100