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TL53NW
669-1/3/342

SAFFRON WALDEN
AUDLEY PARK, Audley End
Temple at TL 528 381, east of Audley End House

(Formerly Listed as: AUDLEY END Temple east of Audley End House)

01/11/72

GV
II*

Corinthian temple. 1790. By RWF Brettingham, to celebrate George III's first recovery from his mental condition. Brick, clunch and terracotta. Small, approximately 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 North and South 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 South and North fronts depicting gods and well-being. East and West 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

External Links

• Wikidata Q17534015

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)