Circular Temple Design by Humphry Repton

A 'Circular Temple' design from Humphry Repton's book 'Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening', published by J Taylor in London, 1803. Repton writes, 'There are few situations in which any building, whether of rude materials of highly finished architecture, can be properly introduced without some trees near it. Yet the summit of a naked brow, commanding views in every direction, may require a covered seat or pavilion; for such a situation, where an architectural building is proper, a circular temple with a dome, such as the Temple of the Sybils, or that of Tivoli, is best calculated; but in rude scenery, as on a knoll or promontory in a forest, the same idea may be preserved in a thatched hovel supported by rude trunks of trees; yet as the beauty of such an object will greatly depend on the vegetation, it should be planted with ivy, or vines, and other creeping plants should be encouraged to spread their foliage over the thatch.'