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[95387] Stowe : The Grenville Column
Stowe Landscape Gardens, Buckinghamshire.
The National Trust.
The Grenville Column, 1749.
For Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham (1675-1749).
Grade l listed.
Originally erected in 1749 near the Grecian Valley, it was moved to its present location in 1756; Earl Temple probably designed it. It commemorates one of Lord Cobham's nephews, Captain Thomas Grenville RN killed in 1747 while fighting the French off Cape Finisterre aboard HMS Defiance under the command of Admiral Anson,.
The monument is based on an Ancient Roman naval monument, a rostral column, one that is carved with the prows of Roman galleys sticking out from the shaft. The order used is Tuscan, and is surmounted by a statue of Calliope holding a scroll.
[95387] Stowe : The Grenville Column
Stowe Landscape Gardens, Buckinghamshire.
The National Trust.
The Grenville Column, 1749.
For Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham (1675-1749).
Grade l listed.
Originally erected in 1749 near the Grecian Valley, it was moved to its present location in 1756; Earl Temple probably designed it. It commemorates one of Lord Cobham's nephews, Captain Thomas Grenville RN killed in 1747 while fighting the French off Cape Finisterre aboard HMS Defiance under the command of Admiral Anson,.
The monument is based on an Ancient Roman naval monument, a rostral column, one that is carved with the prows of Roman galleys sticking out from the shaft. The order used is Tuscan, and is surmounted by a statue of Calliope holding a scroll.