Design for a Gothic temple, c1758, executed (1)

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire: designs for landscape architecture, alterations to the house, and interior design for Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 5th Baronet (created Lord Scarsdale 1761), 1759-72 (149)
    - Designs for buildings within the park, including a boat house, garden hut, garden pavilion, stables, farm offices, greenhouse, viewing tower, bridge, gateway, milestone, pheasant house, parsonage house, farm house and inn

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Design for a Gothic temple, c1758, executed (1)

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Though Bolton describes this building as a chapel, it is a garden temple, located 1 1/4 miles north of Kedleston Hall. The authorship of the temple is unclear. It appears to have been designed - if not built - prior to Adam's arrival, and Adam had then acquired this drawing, probably when he was appointed to design the landscape architecture in 1759. The building survives in situ and is now used as a house.

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