Garden Temple to South of Kensington Palace is a Grade II listed building in the Kensington and Chelsea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1969. Temple.
Garden Temple to South of Kensington Palace
- WRENN ID
- plain-entrance-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater MP: Joe Powell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 April 1969
- Type
- Temple
- Address
- Garden Temple to South of Kensington Palace, Kensington Palace W8
- OS grid reference
- TQ 258 799
- Coordinates
- 51.50427, -0.1883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden temple located to the south of Kensington Palace dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It is a one-storey open structure featuring a front with two plain outer piers and two Tuscan columns in antis, topped with an entablature. Above, there is a solid attic divided by pilasters, with panels that are carved with cherubs and foliage. The interior includes an apsidal end and round-headed niches on both the left and right sides.
Local climate
Garden Temple to South of Kensington Palace 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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