The Temple

TL l4SW SOUTHILL SOUTHILL PARK

5/247 The Temple 16.1.52 (formerly listed as fishing temple with Southill Park House)

• II*

Garden building, known as the Temple or the Fishing Temple. Circa 1800, by Henry Holland for Samuel Whitbread II as part of his remodelling of Southill Park. Light mottled brick, with ashlar and stucco, and slate roofs. Small rectangular Tuscan temple flanked by screen walls to W and E, with small cottage attched to W end. The temple is sited on the N side of the lake, N of and in view of Southill Park (house). N elevation: temple has tetrastyle pedimented port-cochere. 4 pilasters to cella wall, with double doors to central bay. Temple is flanked by round-headed archways, the flanking screen wall with blind arcading in same proportions. Screen walls terminate in round-headed carriage arches in line with porte-cochere. S elevation:temple has tetrastyle pedimented portico with 4 pilasters to cella wall. French windows to each of the 3 bays. Plain screen walls. Single-storeyed L-plan cottage projects from end of LH wall, rather plain, with cast iron lattice casements. Temple interior: retains original plasterwork Corinthian pilasters and ornate ceiling. The temple formerly contained 2 marble statues. (C Hussey, "Southill Park", Country Life, 12th July 1930, p.48.)

Listing NGR: TL1449143179