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WILLIAM KENT
William Kent (1685-1748) was great without a hint of gravitas, a con man who became one of the artistic geniuses of his age. He was a high camp Yorkshire bachelor, brought back by …
Gentlemen Gardeners
The English love affair with the landscape garden reached its height in the eighteenth century, when the creation of some of our greatest gardens set a stylistic lead which …
Stylistic Cold Wars
'That Prussian pedant', 'Herr Professor Doktor': these were two of the jibes John Betjeman levelled at Nikolaus Pevsner, who, it must be said, received them with great restraint. …
Historic Gardens of Warwickshire
Historic Gardens of Herefordshire
Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole, famous for his novel The Castle of Otranto and his gothick castle-villa, Strawberry Hill, has been oddly shielded by his previous admirers. The most famous of these …
Historic Gardens of Cornwall
This is the fourth volume in Timothy Mowl's ground-breaking county series on historic English gardens, now sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust. Cornwall is particularly strong on …
Historic Gardens of Wiltshire
Historic Gardens of Dorset
This work provides an authoritative and accessible guide to the historic gardens of Dorset, from the exquisite manor houses of the 16th and 17th centuries to the inspired creations …
Historic Gardens of Worcestershire
Worcestershire is particularly rich in great gardens from the last 250 years, such as: Madresfield Court, the inspiration for Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited" and the restored …
Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole, famous for his novel The Castle of Otranto and his gothick castle-villa, Strawberry Hill, has been oddly shielded by his previous admirers. The most famous of these …
Historic Gardens of Gloucestershire
Timothy Mowl describes the creation of designed landscapes and gardens in Gloucestershire from medieval times to the present day, taking in: the formal gardens of the late …