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Stourhead floor plan.
The pantheon built by henry flitcroft in 1753 4.
A brilliant arcadian design begun by henry hoare in 1741 incorporating ever changing vistas around a lake replete with temples to apollo and flora a rock bridge a cascade a pantheon a thatched cottage and a grotto.
Architect colen campbell was hired to design the plans for stourhead and utilized the help of nathaniel ireson to build the structure between 1721 and 1725 in the new palladian style.
The estate is about 2 1 2 miles 4 km northwest of the town of mere and includes a grade i listed 18th century palladian mansion the village of stourton gardens farmland and woodland.
Stourhead was one of the first country villas to be built in the new palladian style.
Stourhead is reason enough to visit england all by itself.
Last admission is 30mins before closing king alfred s tower.
The gothic cottage added in the 1770s by henry hoare the grotto probably based on ovid s myth of daphne and peneus chinese bridge the rock arch the hermitage according to.
The stourhead park was created in a luxuriant valley which flitcroft made into a lake with a path around it that provided a sequence of picturesque views and encounters with temples statuary springs and.
When stourhead first opened in the 1740s a magazine described it as a living work of art.
Apr sep daily 9am 7pm oct mar daily 9am 5pm or dusk if earlier.
Originally referred to as the temple of hercules.
The world famous landscape garden has at its centrepiece a magnificent lake reflecting classical temples mystical grottoes and rare and exotic trees and offers a day of fresh air and discovery.
Address stourhead estate office stourton nr warminster wiltshire england ba12 6qd.
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The house was designed by colen campbell but henry hoare i unfortunately died the same year in which the house was completed.
Stourhead ˈ s t aʊər ˌ h ɛ d is a 1 072 hectare 2 650 acre estate at the source of the river stour in the southwest of the english county of wiltshire extending into somerset.
Left hand plan principal storey of stourhead in wiltshire as designed by mr.
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Stourhead garden commentary stourhead was the perfect realization of the eighteenth century yearning for a vergilian and claudian arcady.
Belton house belton grantham main ground and first floor plans annotated.
Print engraving two floor plans stourhead wiltshire by hendrick hulsberg amsterdam london 1729.
It is one of the best examples of the english landscape style of garden.
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