Stowe Landscape Gardens

“Stowe is the most important landscape garden in Britain. Throughout the 18th century its owners, the Temple and Grenville families, employed many of the leading architects, landscape gardeners and sculptors to create an idealised classical landscape.

The pamphlet provides information on the Temple and Grenville Families of Stowe, the revival, the Stowe landscape Gardens Appeal, the Approach to the Gardens, the Gardens and a labelled map and key.

There are labelled pictures of the Doric Arch, the Congreve Monument, the Oxford Bridge and Lodges, the Boycott Pavilions, the Cobham Monument, the Queen’s Temple, the Gothic Temple, the Seasons’ Fountain, the Temple of British Worthies, the Palladian Bridge, the Temple of Friendship, the Pebble Alcove, the Lake Pavilions, the Hermitage, the Temple of Venus, the Rotondo, the Temple of Ancient Virtue and the Grenville Column.