TEMPLE AT TL 528 381, EAST OF AUDLEY END HOUSE

TEMPLE AT TL 528 381, EAST OF AUDLEY END HOUSE, AUDLEY PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1196116
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: TEMPLE AT TL 528 381, EAST OF AUDLEY END HOUSE
Statutory Address:: TEMPLE AT TL 528 381, EAST OF AUDLEY END HOUSE, AUDLEY PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1196116
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: TEMPLE AT TL 528 381, EAST OF AUDLEY END HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: TEMPLE AT TL 528 381, EAST OF AUDLEY END HOUSE, AUDLEY PARK

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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Location

Statutory Address:: TEMPLE AT TL 528 381, EAST OF AUDLEY END HOUSE, AUDLEY PARK

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

County:: Essex
District:: Uttlesford (District Authority)
Parish:: Saffron Walden
National Grid Reference:: TL5284638133

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL53NW AUDLEY PARK, Audley End 669-1/3/342 Temple at TL 528 381, east of Audley 01/11/72 End House (Formerly Listed as: AUDLEY END Temple east of Audley End House)

GV II*

Corinthian temple. 1790. By RWF Brettingham, to celebrate George III's first recovery fron insanity. Brick, clunch and terracotta. Small, approx 10.5 x 5.6m, aligned N-S, no pediments or roof, peripeteral and tetrastyle but no inner naos, to be seen as a ruin against the sky-line. Columns on similar N and S fronts have wide central gap and corner clustering. The low brick podium is stone floored and carries smooth clunch columns with oolitic limestone moulded bases and terracotta capitals. Entablature has acanthus decorated modillion cornice with dentils, enriched fluted frieze with Coade stone panels by Rossi on S and N fronts depicting gods and well-being. E and W faces of frieze carry metal lettered inscription, now fragmentary, recording erection by Sir John Griffin Griffin, who was, by then, Lord Howard de Walden. A circular ha-ha surrounds the structure. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Ratcliffe E: Essex: London: 1965-: 65; Drury PJ & Gow IR: Audley End, Essex: HMSO, London: 1984-: 36).

Listing NGR: TL5284638133

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 370383
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Drury, PJ, Gow, IR , Audley End Essex, (1984)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Essex, (1965), 65
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 15 Essex,

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