'Ruined Abbey', Painshill Landscape Garden, Surrey
Painshill, near Cobham, Surrey, is one of the finest remaining examples of an 18th-century English landscape park. It was designed and created between 1738 and 1773 by Charles Hamilton. The original house built in the park by Hamilton has since been demolished.
The central feature is a serpentine lake of 14 acres, with several islands and spanned by bridges and a causeway. As focal points in the vistas, and as sympathetic elements to be discovered in the landscape, Hamilton placed a number of follies, which include a grotto, Gothic 'temple', 'ruins' of a Gothic abbey, a Roman mausoleum, and a Gothic tower with a view of the countryside.
The ruined abbey was the last of Hamilton's garden buildings, built in 1772. The lake was extended at the same time, creating a dramatic reflection of the 'ruins'.
'Ruined Abbey', Painshill Landscape Garden, Surrey
Painshill, near Cobham, Surrey, is one of the finest remaining examples of an 18th-century English landscape park. It was designed and created between 1738 and 1773 by Charles Hamilton. The original house built in the park by Hamilton has since been demolished.
The central feature is a serpentine lake of 14 acres, with several islands and spanned by bridges and a causeway. As focal points in the vistas, and as sympathetic elements to be discovered in the landscape, Hamilton placed a number of follies, which include a grotto, Gothic 'temple', 'ruins' of a Gothic abbey, a Roman mausoleum, and a Gothic tower with a view of the countryside.
The ruined abbey was the last of Hamilton's garden buildings, built in 1772. The lake was extended at the same time, creating a dramatic reflection of the 'ruins'.