Stoke Park Temple, Stoke Edith, Herefordshire

The Temple at Stoke Park in Herefordshire from Humphry Repton's book 'Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening', published in 1803. Repton writes, 'It is not sufficient that a building should be in just proportions with itself, it should bear some relative proportion to the objects near to it. The example here given is the Doric portico at Stoke Park, in Herefordshire, where the size of the building was regulated by a large oak and a young plantation near it...'