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was roofed by a smaller dome. A minaret was placed at each end 
of the building. Chambers’s idea was to “ collect the principal pecu- 
liarities of Turkish architecture.” This building was demolished at 
some time previous to 1824, and the mound is at present chiefly inter- 
esting for the group of fine cedars of Lebanon growing on it. They 
were doubtless planted about the time the Mosque was built. 
On some part of the spot now occupied by the Sunk Rose Garden 
— which is entered some fifty yards east of the Pagoda — there 
Alhambra ° nCe s * 00( ^ “ Alhambra.” It was an imitation of 
Moorish architecture, designed by Chambers, and con- 
sisted of a saloon fronted by a portico of coupled columns and crowned 
with a lantern. It had disappeared by 1824. When the Rose 
Garden was being excavated in the winter of 1895-6, fragments of 
this building were unearthed, and the colours of some of the mural 
painting were still fresh. 
The other temples and buildings described and illustrated by 
Chambers in 1763 need only be mentioned by name. They have 
long since crumbled to dust. Even the places on which many of 
them stood can only be conjectured now. But the mere enumeration 
of them conveys some idea of the extraordinary number and variety 
of structures with which the Kew of the latter part of the eighteenth 
century was embellished. Whilst some of them were trivial in char- 
acter, others were of chaste and classical design, worthy of being con- 
structed of more durable material than was used for them. Besides 
the temples and various structures, past and present, to which some 
notice has already been accorded, there were other temples dedicated 
to Pan, Solitude, Confucius, and Peace. The Temple of Pan was 
situated about midway between the present Cumberland Gate and the 
Ice House ; the Temple of Confucius on a spot near to, or covered 
by, No. I. Museum. There were also the Chinese Pavilion (erected 
in the centre of a large tank which formed part of the Menagerie), 
the Gothic Cathedral, the Gallery of Antiques, and the Theatre of 
Augusta. Most of these buildings were designed by Sir William 
Chambers, but for some of them Muntz, Goupy, and Kent were 
responsible. 
On the outskirts of the thick wood in the south-western extremity 
of the Gardens there stands the romantic-looking old house known 
as the Queen’s Cottage. The precise date of its erection does not 
appear to be recorded, but it is marked on the plan of the manor of 
