Gothick Temple, Painshill Park, Cobham, Surrey

            Late 18th Century gothick temple. Stucco covered wood with plastered wood roof. Octagonal with 8 square uprights and an obelisk finial to each, battlemented between. Each face contains one ogee arched opening with Y shaped dividing pendant. Quatrefoil roundel above. Fan vaulted roof with centre pendant and petal decoration.

Painshill is one of the finest remaining examples of an 18th-century English landscape park. It was designed and created between 1738 and 1773 by Charles Hamilton. The original house built in the park by Hamilton has since been demolished.

Today, Painshill comprises 158 acres (64 ha) of the original more than 200 acres (81 ha) owned by Charles Hamilton in the 18th century. The landscape garden stretches along the banks of the winding River Mole on land that has a number of natural hills and valleys.

The central feature of the park is a serpentine lake of 14 acres (5.7 ha) with several islands and spanned by bridges and a causeway. The water for the lake and the plantings is pumped from the River Mole by a 19th-century beam engine powered by a water wheel. Hamilton enhanced the views of hills and lake by careful plantings of woods, avenues and specimen trees to create vistas and separate environments including an amphitheatre, a water meadow and an alpine valley. 

As focal points in the vistas and as sympathetic elements to be discovered in the landscape, Hamilton placed a number of follies, small decorative buildings, which include a grotto, a Gothic "temple", "ruins" of a Gothic abbey, a Roman mausoleum, and a Gothic tower with a view of the countryside.

Taken on: January 19, 2024

Sets appears in: • Painshill & Claremont

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Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ70, f/3.9, 1/250 sec, 7.8mm, ISO 160 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Panasonic DMC-TZ70
Aperture:	f/3.9
Exposure Time:	0.004 sec (1/250)
Focal Length:	7.8mm
ISO:	160
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Landscape
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
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