Garden Temple (Attree Villa)
The Attree Villa's Garden Temple (sometimes referred to locally as the "Gazebo") is, along with the Pepper Pot tower, one of the last remnants of the now-demolished Attree Villa, and (like the Pepper Pot) was on the edge of the Villa's estate, and highly visible to outsiders. This was especially true as the Temple was adjacent to a steep drop at the perimeter wall at the South edge of the villa's estate, so that it very visibly overlooked Queens Park.
Structure
The Temple has a square plan with four corner pillars and a four-sided shallow-angled roof with a central finial, is walled on three sides, and is about the width of a car parking space.
Contents
The structure originally held a statue (now long gone). What the staue was seems to be a matter of disagreement. Some accounts say that it was a statue of a god. The Historic Engand site quotes, "The Garden Temple, which originally contained the statue of a dog, ...". It would seem that someone, somewhere has made a typo, but whether the statue was really of a god or a dog doesn't seem to be known with certainty.
Subsequent landscaping
The outside wall at the side of the villa dropped so precipitously that it was practically a rampart, which was probably useful as a way of making sure that people using the park couldn't just hop over the wall to get into the villa's grounds. Thus is visible in the Regency Society plate linked to below.
Since then the level of the adjacent road seems to have been raised up to match the level of the villa's floor, and there's instead a steeper slope within the grounds of Queens Park.
