Garden Temple To South West Of Prideaux Place

The Garden Temple, located to the southwest of Prideaux Place, was built between 1738 and 1739 by Edmund Prideaux. Constructed from stuccoed stone rubble, brick, and ashlar stone, this small temple features a tetrastyle Ionic design with the end columns engaging the antae, rather than being in antis. It is raised on a stylobate and has a flight of steps at the front. The pediment is finely dentilled, and the temple has a shallow rectangular plan with unpierced side and rear walls. There are remains of two later 19th-century columns adorned with swags, which originally framed an alley in front of the temple but are now positioned behind it. This temple is one of several garden buildings created by Edmund Prideaux and is depicted in drawings of the east front and garden from the 1730s by Prideaux, as well as in a 1758 illustration by Borlase.