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The Palladian bridge, which is a copy of the one at Wilton House, [6] was built by Richard Jones, [44] and has been designated as a Grade I listed building [45] and Scheduled Ancient Monument. [46] [45] It was repaired in 1936. [47]
The Palladian bridge. The Palladian bridge, which is a copy of the one at Wilton House, [24] has been designated as a Grade I listed building [25] and scheduled monument. [26] [27] It was repaired in 1936. [28] The Palladian Bridge later featured on the cover of the 1996 album Morningrise by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth. [29] [30]
Jones and de Caus's south front and the Palladian bridge (1736–37), in a view of circa 1820. The 11th Earl (1759–1827) called upon James Wyatt in 1801 to modernise the house, and create more space for pictures and sculptures. The final of the three well-known architects to work at Wilton (and the only one well documented) was to prove the ...
The 18th-century landscape garden covers 57 acres, with the highlight being the Palladian bridge, inspired by Italian architect Andrea Palladio.
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Stowe Gardens, The Hawkwell Field, with the Palladian Bridge on the right and the Gothic Temple on the rising ground straight ahead. Beyond, the Queen's Temple and Lord Cobham's Monument are just visible. Hawkwell Field lies to the east of the Elysian Fields, and is also known as The Eastern Garden.
Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580). What is today recognised as Palladian architecture evolved from his concepts of symmetry, perspective and the principles of formal classical architecture from ancient Greek and Roman traditions. In the 17th and ...
Studying at Christ Church, Oxford up to 1705 in a milieu of classicist architecture (its dean, Henry Aldrich, was then at work on his Elementa architecturae and on overseeing construction of the Peckwater quadrangle, Palladian before Palladianism was popular in England) he went on a grand tour in 1712 (meeting Lord Shaftesbury in Naples, William Kent in Rome, and also going to Venice).