Garden Temple Approximately 40 Metres North East Of Ettington Park Hotel

ETTINGTON

SP24NW SHIPSTON ROAD, Alderminster 1912-1/6/79 (East side (off)) 05/04/67 Garden temple approx. 40m NE of Ettington Park Hotel (Formerly Listed as: ETTINGTON Garden Temple at Ettington Park)

GV II

Garden temple. Later C17. Plastered brick with limestone ashlar front; parapeted flat roof. EXTERIOR: 2-bay structure. Renaissance style. End piers have channelled rustication with fluted capitals; fluted Corinthian pilasters to returns and similar central anta support archivolts with key blocks and foliate spandrels; panelled end piers above springing of arches have drops of fruit including pomegranates, including returns; top entablature with scrolly foliage to frieze, which has panel with coronet and foliage to each end and to returns; pineapple finial to each end, probably copies of originals, with similar finials to rear. Return walls have entrance openings and top cornices. INTERIOR: stucco rear wall with central round-headed recess with angle pilasters and archivolt; plain niche to each side has scrolly foliage frieze above; floor has C19 encaustic tiles. This building was brought from Coleshill Park. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 290; Shell Guides: Hickman D: Warwickshire: London: 1979-: 98).

Listing NGR: SP2478147354