Stourhead
An English landscape garden around a lake with temples and a Palladian bridge.
Henry Hoare II, son of the banker, had a lake dammed in the valley and planted trees and temples around it. The circuit is conceived as a story from Virgil’s Aeneid, with temples and the grotto as stations.
Stourhead is one of the best-known examples of the English landscape garden, which replaced the symmetry of the Baroque with a landscape that looks natural.
Materials: Lake, lawns, trees, temples, a grotto and a bridge
Manufacture: Laid out from 1741 by Henry Hoare II at Stourhead in Wiltshire, England.
The lake with the round Pantheon temple on the shore.
The Palladian bridge over the lake.
The grotto with the river god.