Calwich Abbey Temple Flanking Bridges with Gates, Gate Piers and Railings is a Grade II* listed building in the East Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. Summer house, fishing lodge.
Calwich Abbey Temple Flanking Bridges with Gates, Gate Piers and Railings
- WRENN ID
- seventh-chapel-wind
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Burton and Uttoxeter MP: Jacob Collier (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1953
- Type
- Summer house, fishing lodge
- Address
- Calwich Abbey Temple Flanking Bridges with Gates, Gate Piers and Railings, Ellastone
- OS grid reference
- SK 131 431
- Coordinates
- 52.98576, -1.80517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Calwich Abbey Temple flanking bridges, gates, gate piers, and railings date from 1797 and serve as a summer house and fishing lodge. The structure is built of ashlar stone and features a copper-covered dome. It has a square single-cell plan and is a single storey high, with a tetrastyle Doric portico. The pediment includes an oval plaque inscribed "HOC / ET PISCATORIBUS / SACRUM / EXSTRUXIT J. GRANVILLE / DEDICAVITQE / AMAENISSIMO SUO / DOVE 1797." The central entrance consists of a six-panelled door flanked by round-headed niches. The eaves cornice is moulded and capped at each corner with ball ornaments on square section acroteria, and a weather vane featuring a fish motif sits atop the dome.
On either side of the temple, there are cast iron hump-back bridges that span the two arms of a former mill race, with gates and rusticated gate piers at each outer end and railings along the sides. The three other elevations feature glazing bar sashes with small horns and segmental fan lights. The southwest elevation has steps leading down to the water. The temple is an idyllic feature in the pastoral landscape, resembling a small classical temple. At the time of the last survey in September 1984, the portico was roofless.
Local climate
Calwich Abbey Temple Flanking Bridges with Gates, Gate Piers and Railings receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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