[95274] Stowe : The Corinthian Arch

Stowe Landscape Gardens, Buckinghamshire.

The National Trust.

The Corinthian Arch, 1765.

By Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford (1737-1793).

Grade l listed.

 

60 feet in height, 60 feet wide and modelled on ancient Roman triumphal arches. Located at the northern end of the Grand Avenue at the top of a hill.

The arch contains two four-storey residences originally for game-keepers. The flanking Tuscan columns were added in 1780.

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