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Latitude: 52.0206 / 52°1'14"N
Longitude: 0.2261 / 0°13'34"E
OS Eastings: 552846
OS Northings: 238133
OS Grid: TL528381
Mapcode National: GBR MC2.9Z4
Mapcode Global: VHHL3.VGXW
Plus Code: 9F4226CG+6F
Entry Name: Temple at TL 528 381, East of Audley End House
Listing Date: 1 November 1972
Last Amended: 31 October 1994
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1196116
English Heritage Legacy ID: 370383
ID on this website: 101196116
Location: Audley End, Uttlesford, Essex, CB11
County: Essex
District: Uttlesford
Civil Parish: Saffron Walden
Traditional County: Essex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Essex
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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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