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Gothic Temple, Stowe

This Gothic Temple folly at Stowe in Buckinghamshire is set in one of the world's most famous landscape gardens. It has a spiral staircase, roof terrace and is surrounded by vast parkland to explore. The gothic windows provide vistas of the monuments, lakes and temples in this 18th-century landscape.

 

This temple, built in 1741, was one of the last additions to the garden at Stowe, formed for Lord Cobham by Charles Bridgeman and his successor, William Kent. That same year, Capability Brown arrived as gardener, to begin his own transformation of the landscape.

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Uploaded on April 11, 2021