The Mary Carter Temple is a Grade II listed building in the West Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1966. Garden temple.

The Mary Carter Temple

WRENN ID
deep-wicket-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lindsey
Constituency
Gainsborough MP: Sir Edward Leigh (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 November 1966
Type
Garden temple
Address
The Mary Carter Temple, Brocklesby
OS grid reference
TA 138 108
Coordinates
53.58174, -0.28252
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Mary Carter Temple is a garden temple built in the early 19th century. It features an ashlar front and a combination of ashlar and red brick at the rear, topped with a slate roof that has lead dressings. The temple has a small rectangular cella plan. The facade is distinguished by a tetrastyle arrangement of unfluted Doric columns, a full entablature, and a pediment that includes a metope frieze, with pilasters in antis located behind the front. The archivolt surfaces are adorned with dentillations that have patterned undersides. Inside the cella, there is a Roman pagan altar made of stone, which bears a Latin inscription that reads: 'Dis Manibus Octavian CAMIAE CHADIO'. The altar is round, decorated with a garlanded frieze of acanthus leaves, and features a hollow at the top for burnt offerings and incense.

Local climate

The Mary Carter Temple receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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