Temple at Tl 528 381, East of Audley End House is a Grade II* listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1972. A C18 Temple.
Temple at Tl 528 381, East of Audley End House
- WRENN ID
- ragged-turret-larch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1972
- Type
- Temple
- Address
- Temple at Tl 528 381, East of Audley End House, Audley Park, Saffron Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 528 381
- Coordinates
- 52.02058, 0.22615
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The temple, located east of Audley End House, is a Grade II* listed Corinthian structure built in 1790 by RWF Brettingham to commemorate George III's first recovery from his mental condition. It is a small building, measuring approximately 10.5 by 5.6 meters, aligned north-south, and designed to appear as a ruin against the skyline, lacking pediments or a roof. The temple features a peripteral and tetrastyle design, with columns on the north and south fronts arranged with a wide central gap and clustered corners.
The low brick podium has a stone floor and supports smooth clunch columns with oolitic limestone moulded bases and terracotta capitals. The entablature is adorned with an acanthus-decorated modillion cornice featuring dentils, and an enriched fluted frieze with Coade stone panels by Rossi on the south and north fronts, which depict themes of gods and well-being. The east and west faces of the frieze carry a now fragmentary metal-lettered inscription that records the erection of the temple by Sir John Griffin Griffin, who was then Lord Howard de Walden. Surrounding the structure is a circular ha-ha.
Local climate
Temple at Tl 528 381, East of Audley End House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.4°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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