The Temple lake at Stancombe Park

"The woods were full of oak and beech , the oak grey and bare, the beech faintly dusted with grey by
the breaking buds; they made a simple, carefully designed pattern with green glades and the wide green spaces -
did the fallow deer graze here still? and, lest the eye wander aimlessly, a Doric temple stood by the waters
edge and an ivy-grown arch spanned the lowest of the connecting weirs. All this had been planned a century
and a half ago so that, at about this date, it might be seen in it's maturity. From where I stood the house was hidden
by a green spur, but I knew well how and where it lay, crouched among the lime trees like a hind in the bracken." 
From Evelyn Waugh's  Brideshead Revisited,  written at Stancombe in 1945: by kind permission of  Peters, Fraser and Dunlop