Where is Nuthall Temple?

Nuthall Temple is in East Midlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 52.9952°, -1.2332°.

Gardens · East Midlands

Nuthall Temple

Nuthall Temple — a garden in england-east-midlands, United Kingdom.

Entrance to St Patrick's Church, Nuthall - geograph.org.uk - 942726 — Oxymoron — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

Plan your visit

Typical visit: 1 h–2.5 h
Best time of year: Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)

Nuthall Temple is a garden of interest in england-east-midlands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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From the Wikipedia article

Nuthall Temple in Nottinghamshire, one of England's lost houses, was one of five houses built in the United Kingdom generally said to have been inspired by Palladio's Villa Capra in Vicenza. Only two 18th century examples remain: Mereworth Castle and Chiswick House. Both are today conserved as Grade I listed buildings. The fourth, Foots Cray Place, was demolished in 1950 after a fire in 1949, while the fifth, Henbury Hall, was built in the 1980s.

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History

]] Nuthall Temple was completed in 1757 for Sir Charles Sedley 2nd Baronet, towards the end of the Neo-Palladian fashion in England. Nuthall Temple does not follow the imitation of Villa Capra "La Rotonda" as closely as its earlier prototypes, although the homage to Palladio's concepts is strongly pronounced. In fact, the house bears a closer resemblance to Rocca Pisana (1578) by Palladio's follower Vincenzo Scamozzi. This similarity makes the architecture of Nuthall extremely interesting as Scamozzi's building, like Nuthall, has a recessed portico rather than prostyle inserted within the facade. This was to become a strong feature of the neoclassical architecture which was to follow…

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