Temple on the Edge of Thursley Lake is a Grade II listed building in the Waverley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1986. Temple.

Temple on the Edge of Thursley Lake

WRENN ID
south-sill-wren
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Waverley
Constituency
Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 October 1986
Type
Temple
Address
Temple on the Edge of Thursley Lake, Witley and Milford
OS grid reference
SU 921 394
Coordinates
51.14719, -0.68349
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The temple on the eastern edge of Thursley Lake is a structure built in the 19th or early 20th century, designed in the Beaux Arts style. It features smooth ashlar stone and a glazed copper lantern on top. The temple has four flat faces oriented towards the compass points, with recessed canted angles between them. Ionic columns in antis stand on pedestals, supporting a pulvinated frieze and bead and egg mouldings at the angles. The northeast side has bronze doors, while the other flat sides have windows with copper lattice glazing bars. Above, there is a stone dome adorned with male and female herms over the cornice and flanking lantern. Inside, the floor is made of stone flags. This temple is one of several garden ornaments in the grounds of Witley Park, created for financier Whitaker-Wright by H. Paxton-Watson.

Local climate

Temple on the Edge of Thursley Lake receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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