Christmas decorations at Stourhead 🎄

Henry Hoare, Stourhead, Wiltshire, England, 18th Century

Stourhead Pedestrian Entrance, Bristol High Cross & Cottages by Richard Walker Via Flickr: Approaching one of the two main pedestrian entrances to Stourhead Gardens in Wiltshire. This shot shows the Holiday Cottages (on the right) and the Bristol High Cross which was moved from the City Centre in 1764. The special 650th anniversary of the Bristol Cross can now be discovered by visitors who can discover the intriguing origins of the Bristol Cross, the oldest known structure in the National Trust’s care at Stourhead. The Bristol Cross stands at the entrance to the garden, one of Stourhead’s most recognisable views, but it began life in the centre of the medieval city of Bristol. New interpretation panels will show visitors how the cross, which was erected in 1373, came to live at Stourhead, and its captivating history.

"I love you, most ardently."

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Stourhead remains an oasis of calm in a quiet corner of Wiltshire

"You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love... I love you."

Adrian Berg  (1929-2011) Stourhead, 25th, 26th & 27th June,  2000 oil on canvas 74 1/8 x 155 7/8 in (188.3 x 395.9 cm) (3 panels)

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The Library at Stourhead, Wiltshire.

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St Peter's Pump, Stourhead, Wiltshire. 'PrzeoRR', October 2018

...and by Nick Perry, June 2020

This strange structure has an unusual history. The upper gothic part was built in the 15th century, in the centre of Bristol. It used to stand above an ancient well next to a medieval church.

In 1768 it was moved due to road improvements and reconstructed on top of this purpose built grotto structure in Stourhead Park. This marks a spring which is one of the sources of the River Stour.

Interestingly, during WWII, the exact former site of the pump was struck by a bomb which would have destroyed it (and did badly damage the church).

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Stourhead House - Wiltshire - England

The House, and its Grounds and Parklands, are open to the public and is run by The National Trust...

The Stourton family had lived at the Stourhead estate for 500 years until they sold it to Sir Thomas Meres in 1714. His son, John Meres, sold it in 1717 to Henry Hoare, son of wealthy banker Sir Richard Hoare. The original manor house was demolished and a new Palladian Style house, one of the first of its kind, was designed by Colen Campbell and built by Nathaniel Ireson between 1721 and 1725.

When I stayed in a cottage at Stourhead. The bridge was featured in Kubrick's Barry Lyndon and The Temple of Apollo was in Pride and Prejudice. The place was great at night with no one else around.

Isis, Meleager, Livia Augusta as Ceres, Hercules, Flora, Diana, St Susanna

Inside the Pantheon at Stourhead