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Prior Park is a Neo-Palladian house that was designed by John Wood, the Elder, and built in the 1730s and 1740s for Ralph Allen on a hill overlooking Bath, Somerset, England. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building .
Purchased by the local entrepreneur and philanthropist Ralph Allen in the 1720s, [2] Prior Park's 11.3 hectares (28 acres) English landscape garden was laid out with advice from the poet Alexander Pope during the construction of the house, [6] [7] [8] overseen by Allen between the years 1734 and his death in 1764. [9]
Ralph Allen (c. 1693 – 29 June 1764) was a British postmaster, merchant and philanthropist best known for his reforms to Britain's postal system. Born in St Columb Major , Cornwall , he moved to Bath, Somerset to work in the municipal post office, becoming its postmaster by 1712.
Prior Park leases The Monument Field from the National Trust. The field is named after a triangular Gothic building with a round tower erected by Bishop Warburton, demolished in 1953; [17] it had a circular staircase and contained a tablet inscribed in Latin in honour of Ralph Allen. [18]
In 1742, Wood was commissioned to build a home for the mayor of Bath Ralph Allen, on a hill overlooking the city of Bath. This building is Grade I listed and has housed Prior Park College since 1830. [11] The building for the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases was designed by Wood and built with Bath Stone donated by Ralph Allen. It ...
Jul. 20—DELPHI — Richard Allen, a Carroll County man accused in the deaths of Delphi teenagers Libby German and Abby Williams, will now stay at the Westville Correctional Facility as he awaits ...
Ralph Allen commenced building it in or shortly after 1727, [1] although it is unlikely he ever lived there. At the time Allen was living in Lilliput Alley, in a house of some 15 rooms, then known as "Lease 7 on the Kingston rental (Countess of Kingston on Hull)", which is now 1 and 2 North Parade Passage. [2] In 1745, Allen moved to Prior Park ...
Jimmie Allen and wife Alexis Gale are giving their relationship another try after celebrating the arrival of their third baby last month. “They decided to work on things together and are still ...