 Augustis Pugin Jr. was famously against the non-European design of the lodges despite public fascination of Egyptology at the time.The Abney Park Temple Lodges (1838–40) were designed by William Hosking as entrance lodges to the historic 18th century parkland associated with Isaac Watts and Lady Mary Abney.The buildings were added to the parkland estate on its becoming laid out as the Congregationalists' novel non-denominational garden cemetery, arboretum and educational institution.