Garden Temple to South West of Ince Blundell Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1968. Garden temple.
Garden Temple to South West of Ince Blundell Hall
- WRENN ID
- calm-niche-foxglove
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central MP: Bill Esterson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1968
- Type
- Garden temple
- Address
- Garden Temple to South West of Ince Blundell Hall, Park Wall Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 326 029
- Coordinates
- 53.5189, -3.0172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Garden Temple, located to the southwest of Ince Blundell Hall, was built around 1775 by W. Everard. This structure is made of brick with stone dressings and features a 20th-century hipped roof. The southeast facade showcases an entablature with a fluted frieze and rosettes, along with a tetrastyle Tuscan portico. The frieze includes the inscription: "HIC VER ASSIDUUM ATQUE ALIENIS MENSIBUS AESTAS," which translates to "here are perpetual spring and summer in unexpected months." A classical mask is present in the pediment, with flanking square recesses that have architraves (boarded in 1985) and round recesses above. Behind the portico, there is a three-bay pilastrade featuring a central entrance with a classical relief above and niches on either side. The interior has canted angles that were originally stuccoed but are now bare brick, with stucco fragments stored. The space includes Venetian and flanking round-headed recesses, as well as niches in the angles. Classical altars are now boarded over (1985). The temple was constructed for Henry Blundell's collection of antiquities.
Local climate
Garden Temple to South West of Ince Blundell Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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