The Temple Of The Four Winds Including Retaining Wall

HENDERSKELFE TERRACE WALK SE 76 NW (east end) Castle Howard 7/77 The Temple of the Four Winds including containing 25.1.54 wall (formerly listed as The Temple) GV I Garden house in form of temple and steps and containing wall to it. 1724-26 by Sir John Vanbrugh with stone door-heads carved by Dan Harvey. Statues possibly by J Nost. Internal plasterwork and scagliola of 1737-39 by Francesco Vassali. Limestone ashlar, lead roof. Central square cella with 4 porticos on cruciform podium, surrounded to the north, west and south by a containing wall, with steps to west. Podium with flight of 8 steps, flanked on east and west facades by lead statues. Tetrastyle pedimented Ionic porticos with plain tympanum and urns to angles. Half-glazed door in architrave with elaborately carved door-head flanked by sashes with glazing bars in shell niches. Ionic cornice surmounted by urns to angles. Octagonal window to dome, surmounted by lantern. Interior: niches above the doors contain busts of Vespasian, Faustina, Trajan and Sabina. Floor of Portland stone inlaid with coloured antique marble. Columns and architraves in black and gold scagliola. Containing wall and steps: 2 flights of shallow steps flanked by balustrade. Wall approximately 3 metres in height with chamfered plinth and coping stones. Massive corner buttresses with tapering bases carrying 5 pulvinated courses surmounted by moulded cornice. Howard G, Castle Howard Guidebook, 1972. Hussey C, English Gardens and Landscapes 1700-1750, 1967. Lees-Milne J, English Country Houses: Baroque 1685-1715, 1970. HBMC, Register of Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England, Part 32, North Yorkshire: Castle Howard, Grade I.

Listing NGR: SE7223669988