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The Queens Temple at Stowe

A visit to the National Trust run Stowe in Buckinghamshire.

Stowe is the creation of many 18th- century landscape designers, architects and craftsmen, and showcases some of Capability Brown's finest work. It's a towering achievement that still influences garden design today.

After early contributions from Sir John Vanbrugh and William Kent, Stowe's first garden designer, Charles Bridgeman, kickstarted the radical transformation away from formality. Lord Cobham funded huge development to create a grand canvas of idealised nature. Grassland, trees, lakes, temples and monuments: all are meticulously constructed to shape perfect views. By the mid-19th century, Richard Temple, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, ultimately aimed to impress Queen Victoria and outdo the neighbouring Claydon estate. This showmanship and rivalry ultimately contributed to bankruptcy.

The Queens Temple at Stowe.

Lord Cobham built this for his wife to directly fae his own Temple of Friendship where he and his friends would meet. Lady Cobham and her companions spent their summer afternoons enjoying the southerly aspect over Hawkwell Field and the temples at the bottom end of the garden.

Grade I Listed Building

The Queens Temple

Description

SP 6737 STOWE

9/68 STOWE SCHOOL
The Queens Temple

25.9.51
GV I

Pavilion of c1740 by Gibbs, remodelled c1770. Balustraded parapet, ashlar
stone, rusticated to basement 3-bay corinthian portico on south approached
by stone steps with balustrades. Glazed central opening, niches with urns
each side. North front also has slightly projecting pedimented centre with
curved Ionic portico, flanking niches. Interior: decorations by Valdre.
Floor has Roman tesselated pavement moved from Foscott 1839-40.(RCHM II
p.286 MON 1)

Listing NGR: SP6772437697

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Taken in: UK / England / Aylesbury Vale / Stowe (show map)

Taken on: July 2, 2023

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Sets appears in: • Monuments at Stowe • Stowe

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Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ72, f/3.4, 1/1600 sec, 6.2mm, ISO 160 (more info) (hide info)

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