Temple in Broad Walk is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. Garden ornament, temple.
Temple in Broad Walk
- WRENN ID
- unlit-newel-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Garden ornament, temple
- Address
- Temple in Broad Walk, Millington and Rostherne
- OS grid reference
- SJ 745 810
- Coordinates
- 53.32607, -2.38395
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Temple in Broad Walk is a garden ornament built around 1820 by William Cole. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a circular temple set on a square stepped base, inspired by the Choragic monument to Lysicrates, though it lacks the inner drum behind the colonnade. The structure has a square platform with three steps of decreasing height, topped by two courses of horizontally rusticated stonework and a ledge. Above this, a circular plinth supports six Corinthian columns, with a full entablature above, although it does not have the decorated frieze typical of the Greek original. The roof edge features antefixae, and there is floral ornamentation at the apex. The monument currently lacks its original wider square platform, which previously included a flight of steps on each side and balustrades.
Local climate
Temple in Broad Walk sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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