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Stourhead (/ ˈ s t aʊər h ɛ d /) [1] is a 1,072-hectare (2,650-acre) estate [2] at the source of the River Stour in the southwest of the English county of Wiltshire, extending into Somerset.
Henry Hoare had Stourton House pulled down, and Stourhead House was built nearby between 1721 and 1724 to designs of Colen Campbell. Henry Hoare II designed gardens which were laid out between 1741 and 1780 around an artificial lake. The house was enlarged in 1796–1800, and in 1840 a tetrastyle portico was added. Most of the building was ...
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.
In addition to the commemorative function, the tower was also intended to serve as an eye-catcher for those touring the parkland of the Stourhead Estate. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] In April 1770, when the tower was just 4.7 m (15 ft) high, Hoare is quoted as saying: "I hope it will be finished in as happy Times to this Isle as Alfred finished his Life of ...
Stourhead House. Hoare was the son of Henry Charles Hoare, and his wife Anne Penelope Ainslie, daughter of General George Ainslie.He was educated at Eton College and St John's College, Cambridge before entering the family bank Messrs Hoare and Co. [2] He succeeded his uncle Sir Hugh Richard Hoare, 4th Baronet in the baronetcy in 1857 and moved to Stourhead.
Henry dominated the Hoare family through his wealth and personal charisma. [2] He was a partner for nearly 60 years in Hoare's Bank.His nickname, "Henry The Magnificent", derived in part from his influence as a great patron of the Arts, but more particularly because he laid out the gardens at Stourhead in Wiltshire, an estate bought by his father. [3]
Palladian revival: Stourhead House, south facade, designed by Campbell and completed in 1720; a print from Vitruvius Britannicus Colen Campbell (15 June 1676 – 13 September 1729) was a pioneering Scottish architect and architectural writer who played an important part in the development of the Georgian style.
He acquired the Stourhead estate in 1717 but died before the new house there had been fully completed. [4] In 1702 he married Jane Benson; they had three children: [5] Jane (d.1762) Henry Hoare II (1705–1785) Sir Richard Hoare (1709–1754), Lord Mayor of London 1745–46