The Temple

The Temple

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. Located on rising ground immediately to the east of the road linking Girthon and Gatehouse, the square tower…

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The Cally Temple Project

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…

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Temple Location

The Temple is well hidden within Cally Woods but makes an excellent destination using the network of paths in the woods.  It is approximately half an hour to 40 minutes from the car park by the Murray Centre on the Cally Drive.  Alternatively it is possible…

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Report on the Temple at Cally

Survey shows the Temple at Cally was lived in when first built. A survey carried out in summer 2012 by the Fleet Valley National Scenic Area volunteers for the Gatehouse Development Initiative confirms that the Temple at Cally was lived in in the later 18th and eraly…

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