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Francis Cartwright, a master builder and architect, who was established as a "competent provincial designer in the Palladian manner", [11] worked on Stourhead between 1749 and 1755. Cartwright was a known carver, presumably of materials such as wood and stone, and it is assumed that his contribution to Stourhead was in this capacity.
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.
Alfred's Tower is a folly in Somerset, [1] [2] England, on the edge of the border with Wiltshire, on the Stourhead estate. The tower stands on Kingsettle Hill and belongs to the National Trust . It is designated as a Grade I listed building .
National Trust is based on an inscription dated around 1748 on the Stourhead estate, part-owned by the National Trust since 1946. [4] The inscription on which the font is based is an epigram , The Nymph of the Spring, in the grotto beside the lake where a statue of a nymph sleeps, and is in a mostly sans-serif style, one of the first such uses ...
The National Trust (Welsh: ... providing the public were allowed some access. The first house offered under the scheme was Stourhead in Wiltshire, ...
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]
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.
The hill is part of the Stourhead estate and has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1946. [1] The hill is the site of the 136.1 hectares (336 acres) Whitesheet Hill biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, notified in 1965. [1] Both the National Trust and the Dutchy of Cornwall own land within Whitesheet Hill SSSI [2].