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Mount Stewart is a 19th-century house and garden in County Down, Northern Ireland, owned by the National Trust.Situated on the east shore of Strangford Lough, a few miles outside the town of Newtownards and near Greyabbey, it was the Irish seat of the Stewart family, Marquesses of Londonderry.
The town of Newtownards is overlooked by the 100-foot (30 m) high Scrabo Tower. The tower is 41 metres high, and was erected on Scrabo Hill as a memorial to Charles Stewart, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry in 1857. Those loyal to the Stewart family suggested the inspiration lay in the gratitude of his tenantry for his solicitude during the famine.
Scrabo Tower overlooks Newtownards and the northern end of the Ards Peninsula. Mount Stewart, an 18th-century house and garden owned by the National Trust near Greyabbey. It was the home of the Vane-Tempest-Stewart family, Marquesses of Londonderry. Grey Abbey, a ruined Cistercian abbey.
The Temple of the Winds, Mount Stewart, Newtownards 54°32′47″N 5°35′33″W / 54.5463°N 5.5926°W / 54.5463; -5.5926 ( The Temple of the Winds, Mount Stewart, Newtownards Estate Related Structures
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The site of the abbey was on the Ards Peninsula, 7 miles (11 km) from Newtownards, at the confluence of a small river and Strangford Lough. Architecturally it is important as the first fully gothic style building in Ulster ; it is the first fully stone church in which every window arch and door was pointed rather than round headed.