A temple
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1700 - 1799
Materials
Marble and copper
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Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 516703.1
Summary
Portland stone and copper, a square open temple with pagoda-style roof supporting four Tuscan columns, British (English) School, 18th century. The roof, rendered in copper fish-scale tiles, is surmounted by an open-work finial. The columns of Portland stone. The temple, purchased in 1951 from Burrow's Hill near Chertsey, encloses NT 516703.2, a hemispherical Roman porphyry basin, of the type known as a labrum, made in the 2nd century A.D.
Provenance
Purchased by Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966), from Bert Crowther, Syon Lodge, on 12 December 1951, £500; see letter to Lord Fairhaven from Bert Crowther of 12 December 1951, stating that the temple came from 'Burrow's Hill [Burrow Hill] near Chertsey Surry'.
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (The National Trust)