Temple On Island In Lower Drakeloe Pond is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1987. Temple.
Temple On Island In Lower Drakeloe Pond
- WRENN ID
- eternal-hammer-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1987
- Type
- Temple
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SP 9433-9533 WOBURN WOBURN PARK 8/193 Temple on island in Lower Drakeloe Pond - II Ornamental temple in 'Chinese Gothick' style. c.1749 or earlier. Painted timber, originally partly gilded. Single-storeyed open octagonal structure, with 3-stage swept-out pagoda-style roof. 8 slender columns with bands of painted decoration. Ogee arches, each haunch interrupted by shallow step at mid-point. Spandrel decoration includes moulded painted flowers. Roof retains traces of painted decoration. C Aslet "Park and Garden Buildings at Woburn", Country Life, 1983, April 7th, pp 860-1; H Hayward and P Kirkham, William and John Linnell, London 1980, pp 18 and 19.
Listing NGR: SP9512533651
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