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Painshill - the gothic temple

I don't have a Farrow & Ball paint chart to hand, but I'm sure these colours must be somewhere in the sticking plaster/ointment/dead salmon spectrum.

 

The gothic temple was built before 1761. For economy it is constructed from wood, rendered to suggest stone. Inside is a pretty plaster vault.

 

Painshill is a landscape garden, created in picturesque style by the Honourable Charles Hamilton between 1738 and 1773 (when he ran out of money and had to sell the estate). The gardens survived into the twentieth century but fell into decay after World War Two. They are now managed by a charity, the Painshill Park Trust, which aims to restore them to the original design.

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Uploaded on April 4, 2009
Taken on March 28, 2009