Description

NUNEHAM COURTENAY NUNEHAM PARK
SU5498
12/87 Temple of Flora approx. 160m.
NE of Nuneham House

GV II

Garden temple. c.1771. Rendered brick with wooden columns and pediment.
Rectangular plan. Greek-Doric style. Open front forms a portico with 2 fluted
columns in antis supporting a triglyph frieze and a triangular pediment with
mutules. Sides and rear are plain. Interior: rear wall has an oval relief of
Flora above a moulded panel containing lines from Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso".
The temple formed the architectural focus of the innovatory flower garden
designed in 1771 by the Reverend William Masons author of "The English Flower
Garden", for Lord Nuneham, afterwards the 2nd Earl Harcourt. The building
resembles illustrations in James Stuart's "The Antiqities of Athens" and may
have been designed by Stuart who was consulted over Nuneham House (q.v.) and All
Saints' Church (q.v.).
Nunaham Park is included in the HBMC County Register of Gardens at Grade I;
V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.V, p.234; W. Batey: "Nuneham Courtenay", 1970, p.25; G.
Worsley: "Nuneham Park Revisited II", Country Life, Vol.177, p,66).

Listing NGR: SU5421398221

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26650122

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)