Comments on: The Temple of the Four Seasons, Margam, Glamorgan https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-temple-of-the-four-seasons-margam-glamorgan/ Rambles to, and ramblings about, Follies and Garden and Landscape Ornament. Mon, 08 Nov 2021 13:35:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-temple-of-the-four-seasons-margam-glamorgan/#comment-5941 Mon, 08 Nov 2021 13:35:26 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=4907#comment-5941 ]]> In reply to Gwyn.

Hello Gwyn. Well in the face of this incontrovertible evidence I will rewrite the entire post 😉

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-temple-of-the-four-seasons-margam-glamorgan/#comment-5940 Mon, 08 Nov 2021 13:32:24 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=4907#comment-5940 In reply to Iain Gray.

Hello Iain. Please share this post with them if you think they might be interested.

]]> By: Gwyn https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-temple-of-the-four-seasons-margam-glamorgan/#comment-5938 Mon, 08 Nov 2021 13:24:41 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=4907#comment-5938 Von’s parents had a place on Gower in the 1980s and we often used to walk the dogs in Margam Country Park. I never saw this, so clearly it must have been built since the ’80s.

]]> By: Iain Gray https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-temple-of-the-four-seasons-margam-glamorgan/#comment-5911 Sat, 06 Nov 2021 16:12:49 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=4907#comment-5911 Francis and Libby Dineley are Folly Fellowship members. Francis is an enthusiastic folly builder and Libby a novelist. They are very good company.

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-temple-of-the-four-seasons-margam-glamorgan/#comment-5908 Sat, 06 Nov 2021 12:05:43 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=4907#comment-5908 In reply to Burgo de Barra.

It does. Centuries apart but in the same spirit.

]]> By: Burgo de Barra https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-temple-of-the-four-seasons-margam-glamorgan/#comment-5906 Sat, 06 Nov 2021 11:59:44 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=4907#comment-5906 … the Margam/Smith painting prompts welcome memories of Jonathan Myles-Lea …

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-temple-of-the-four-seasons-margam-glamorgan/#comment-5904 Sat, 06 Nov 2021 11:06:34 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=4907#comment-5904 In reply to John Malaiperuman.

Hello John. I would love it to be the work of Inigo Jones. I just wanted to make it clear that there is no evidence. It’s curious that the contemporary account makes no mention of an architect, or the usually very well-informed Pococke when he visits in the 18C.

]]> By: John Malaiperuman https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-temple-of-the-four-seasons-margam-glamorgan/#comment-5902 Sat, 06 Nov 2021 09:51:22 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=4907#comment-5902 I am more convinced that the design might be by Inigo Jones than you are, because the building is contemporary with him and there were very few other practitioners of the classical style at that time. He was Welsh, and the elevation bears distinct similarities to other drawings by him.

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-temple-of-the-four-seasons-margam-glamorgan/#comment-5901 Sat, 06 Nov 2021 09:40:21 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=4907#comment-5901 In reply to Gand.

Good morning Gand. I believe he did. December 1963.

]]> By: Gand https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-temple-of-the-four-seasons-margam-glamorgan/#comment-5900 Sat, 06 Nov 2021 09:13:25 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=4907#comment-5900 Nice cottage. I wonder if Frankie Valli ever stayed there.

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