Gardens

NOTES: Lutyens restored and extended the house, built in 1464 by the Etchingham family, in 1910-1914.

NOTES: Henry Hoare II, a banker who had been on the Grand Tour, inherited Stourhead in 1741and was largely responsible for the design of the gardens. He employed Henry Flitcroft to design many of the garden buildings in the 1740s. The River Stour was dammed to form the great lake and was completed in 1757. The Pantheon, also designed by Henry Flitcroft, was built in 1756.

NOTES: Henry Hoare II, a banker who had been on the Grand Tour, inherited Stourhead in 1741and was largely responsible for the design of the gardens. He employed Henry Flitcroft to design many of the garden buildings in the 1740s. The River Stour was dammed to form the great lake and was completed in 1757. The Pantheon, also designed by Henry Flitcroft, was built in 1756.

SOURCE: Humphry Repton. Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening (London, 1816), facing p. 128

SOURCE: John Buonarotti Papworth. Hints on ornamental gardening (London, 1823), pl. 19

SOURCE: J. C. Loudon (revised and edited by J. W. Loudon). The Villa gardener (London, 1850), p. 140 NOTES: Loudon designed this double house and lived in the side whose entrance can be seen.

SOURCE: J. C. Loudon (revised and edited by J. W. Loudon). The Villa gardener (London, 1850), p. 181

SOURCE: Humphry Repton. Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening (London, 1816), facing p. 126 NOTES: The aquatint plates in the book are almost certainly all engraved from drawings made by Humphry Repton or his son, John Adey Repton.

SOURCE: Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Vedute di Roma (Rome, [1747?-1788]), pl. 124