Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Painswick is a town and civil parish in the Stroud District in Gloucestershire, England. Originally the town grew from the wool trade, but it is now best known for its parish church's yew trees and the local Rococo Garden.
Robins's painting allowed the garden to be restored in the 1990s under the direction of Painswick's owner, Lord Dickinson, who inherited the house in 1955. [6] [7] The garden is the only surviving garden of the rococo period which is open to the public. [3] It was designed and laid out in the 1740s. [8]
In 1733 his father bought an estate in Painswick and built a house as a country residence. [4] In 1741 he unsuccessfully stood as MP for Gloucester in the Tory interest. [ 3 ] Shortly after [ 5 ] he married Frances (d. 1768), the only child of Sir Thomas Snell, a London merchant who had settled in Upton St Leonards .
New Hampshire Historical Society Museum: New Jersey: New Jersey Historical Society: New Jersey State Museum: New Mexico: Historical Society of New Mexico: New Mexico History Museum: New York: New-York Historical Society: New York State Museum: North Carolina: North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Museum of History ...
This list of museums in New Hampshire is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Painswick Stream is a small river in Gloucestershire, England. It is a tributary of the River Frome , and flows generally southwards, passing around the village of Painswick and through the town of Stroud .
The Court House is a grade I listed house in Hale Lane, Painswick, Gloucestershire, England, within the Cotswolds.. The house was built in the late 16th century with additions in 1604, [1] for Thomas Gardener on the site of an earlier manor house.
Painswick", in Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester: Iron Age and Romano-British Monuments in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1976), pp. 91-94. Media related to Painswick hill fort at Wikimedia Commons