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The estate is about 4 km (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi) northwest of the town of Mere and includes a Grade I listed 18th-century Neo-Palladian mansion, the village of Stourton, one of the most famous gardens in the English landscape garden style, farmland, and woodland. Stourhead has been part-owned by the National Trust since 1946.
Rotunda at Stowe Gardens (1730–1738) The paintings of Claude Lorrain inspired Stourhead and other English landscape gardens.. The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden (French: Jardin à l'anglaise, Italian: Giardino all'inglese, German: Englischer Landschaftsgarten, Portuguese: Jardim inglês, Spanish: Jardín inglés), is a style of ...
The cross is now at the entrance to the gardens of the Stourhead estate. Bristol High Cross is a monumental market cross said to have been erected c.1373 in the centre of Bristol, England, to commemorate the granting of a charter by Edward III to make Bristol a county, separate from Somerset and Gloucestershire. [1]
English: English landscape garden at Stourhead, England (designed ca. 1744-1765 / photographed 1993) Henry Flitcroft (designer), Henry Hoare (owner, planner). Date 14 February 2020, 17:25:46
The gardens were admired as a showplace [4] and Capability Brown, the renowned landscape gardener, was well known to Henry. [5] In 1734 he was elected Member of Parliament for Salisbury. [6] He died in 1785 leaving Stourhead to the son of his daughter Ann (1734–1759), Richard Colt Hoare. [7] His younger daughter, Susanna, became Countess of ...
The village is about 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (4 km) northwest of the small town of Mere, and is part of the Stourhead estate, which includes much of the west of the parish. The estate is in the ownership of the National Trust, and the entrance to the estate's famous house and garden is through the village.
Charles Bridgeman (1690–1738) was an English garden designer who helped pioneer the naturalistic landscape style.Although he was a key figure in the transition of English garden design from the Anglo-Dutch formality of patterned parterres and avenues to a freer style that incorporated formal, structural and wilderness elements, Bridgeman's innovations in English landscape architecture have ...
Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Baronet (19 November 1865 – 25 March 1947) was an English landowner, best known for his restoration of the country house at Stourhead in Wiltshire, following a fire in April 1902. [1] Prior to his death he donated the house and gardens to the National Trust.