James Ramsay, a landscape gardener, is credited for adding new elements to the designed landscape of Cally House, including the gothic ‘Temple’, built in 1779.

An anthology of poetry produced as part of the project. Click on the image to view.

The Cally Temple, Conservation and Historic Environment Awareness Raising Project

The Cally Temple Project is a new project led by the Gatehouse Development Initiative in partnership with the landowner Forestry Commission Scotland, to conserve the Temple, a two storey stone tower of 1779.  The Temple once looked out across the elegantly laid out parkland of Cally House.  It was built as a feature in the landscape, visible from the house, and to impress visitors.  Today, deep within the woods that have long since grown around it, the Temple has a hidden, mysterious quality.  However the condition of the building has begun to deteriorate.  

The Cally Temple project has won Heritage Lottery Fund support to conserve the historic eighteenth century Temple within Cally Woods at Gatehouse of Fleet and provide an education and information programme.

If you would like to contact the project team or to submit creative work, historic images, recollections or other ideas relevant to the project, please contact us by email at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Have you been to the Temple in Cally Woods, would you like to write a poem about it?

Survey shows the Temple at Cally was lived in when first built.