Comments on: The Temple of Theseus, Exmouth, Devon https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-temple-of-theseus-exmouth-devon/ Rambles to, and ramblings about, Follies and Garden and Landscape Ornament. Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:59:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-temple-of-theseus-exmouth-devon/#comment-17834 Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:59:34 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13378#comment-17834 In reply to Sian Batchelder.

Thank you Sian. After a Christmas break, and a forced break when the technology failed, I am looking forward to posting folly stories this year.

]]> By: Sian Batchelder https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-temple-of-theseus-exmouth-devon/#comment-17829 Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:23:15 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13378#comment-17829 Delighted to see the Folly Flaneuse back.
Sian Batchelder

]]> By: TOM GARDNER https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-temple-of-theseus-exmouth-devon/#comment-17776 Sat, 08 Feb 2025 17:39:52 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13378#comment-17776 NYC TOM
ALAS, ‘THOSE OF US’… ‘ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE POND’ –
LACK THE SHARING GIFT OF SPENDING: AN AFTERNOON – VIEWING THESE – BEAUTIFUL, MOVING, INSPIRING … SURVIVING EXAMPLES – OF THE CREATIVE SPIRIT OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT.
THE BEST WE CAN DO IS … VISIT A VINTAGE, WEALTHY CEMETERY.
MANY THANKS FOR YOUR SHARING.
TOM – NYC

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-temple-of-theseus-exmouth-devon/#comment-17775 Sat, 08 Feb 2025 15:55:03 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13378#comment-17775 In reply to Julia Abel Smith.

Hello Julia. It’s charming and beautifully executed, wish it was hanging on my wall!

]]> By: archaeogail https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-temple-of-theseus-exmouth-devon/#comment-17773 Sat, 08 Feb 2025 12:23:21 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13378#comment-17773 In reply to Editor.

Absolutely, how could they demolish something so beautiful? And hurrah to you for uncovering the evidence so its story lives on.

]]> By: Julia Abel Smith https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-temple-of-theseus-exmouth-devon/#comment-17772 Sat, 08 Feb 2025 12:06:24 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13378#comment-17772 What an exquisite watercolour of the Temple of Theseus by Mary Hamilton Campbell. She had real talent.

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-temple-of-theseus-exmouth-devon/#comment-17771 Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:47:08 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13378#comment-17771 In reply to archaeogail.

Thank you Gail. Sadly I didn’t find any descriptions of the interior, but as you say it is fascinating to imagine how it looked. Such a shame that the Temple of the Winds doesn’t survive, but hurray for the artists whose work records the past.

]]> By: archaeogail https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-temple-of-theseus-exmouth-devon/#comment-17768 Sat, 08 Feb 2025 09:42:05 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13378#comment-17768 , what an absolute travesty! Though I can appreciate how dark it must have been inside without them. Would love to know how the interior was originally decorated & furnished. As always, a fascinating & beautifully illustrated post.]]> Those bay windows 😱, what an absolute travesty! Though I can appreciate how dark it must have been inside without them. Would love to know how the interior was originally decorated & furnished. As always, a fascinating & beautifully illustrated post.

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-temple-of-theseus-exmouth-devon/#comment-17767 Sat, 08 Feb 2025 09:25:38 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13378#comment-17767 In reply to David Winpenny.

Good morning David. I know of the Pitfour temple, and it is on the list for my annual Scottish folly jaunt later this year. I didn’t know the Lord Rolle story so thanks for sharing that. As I think you will know by now, I am a huge fan of tangents!

]]> By: David Winpenny https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-temple-of-theseus-exmouth-devon/#comment-17766 Sat, 08 Feb 2025 09:14:42 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13378#comment-17766 Two thoughts: there’s a Temple of Thesueus, in a bad statem, at Pitfour House in Aberdeenshire, which you’ll probably know; and the Lord Rolle who developed Exmouth was the one who caused a commotion at Queen Victoria’s coronation by tumbling backward down the steps of the throne during the Homage. Such loveley tangents!

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