West Pavilion at Buscot Park - a photo on Flickriver

An afternoon visit in Oxfordshire to the National Trust property of Buscot Park.

Buscot Park is a country house at Buscot near the town of Faringdon in Oxfordshire within the historic boundaries of Berkshire. It is a Grade II* listed building.

It was built in an austere neoclassical style between 1780 and 1783 for Edward Loveden Loveden. It remained in the family until sold in 1859 to Robert Tertius Campbell, an Australian. Campbell's daughter Florence would later be famous as Mrs Charles Bravo, the central character in a Victorian murder case that remains unsolved to this day. On Campbell's death, in 1887, the house and its estate were sold to Alexander Henderson a financier, later to be ennobled as Baron Faringdon.

Following the death of the 1st Baron in 1934, the house was considerably altered and restored to its 18th-century form, by the architect Geddes Hyslop, for his grandson and successor, Gavin Henderson, 2nd Baron Faringdon, during this era, the art collection founded by the 1st Baron was considerably enlarged, although many of the 1st Baron's 19th-century works of art were sold immediately following his death.

The house and estate was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1956. The contents (which include works of art by Rembrandt and Burne-Jones) are owned by the Faringdon Collection Trust. The house is occupied and managed by the present Lord Faringdon. The mansion and its extensive formal and informal gardens and grounds are open to the public each summer.

Grade II listed building

West Pavilion

Buscot Park: West Pavilion With Attached Terrace Walls and Gatepier

Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/09/2012

SU29NW 1/104 10/11/52

BUSCOT Buscot Park, West pavilion with attached terrace walls and gatepier

(Formerly listed with Buscot Park)

GV II

Pavilion (part of country house). Circa 1935 by Geddes Hyslop for 2nd Baron Faringdon. Limestone ashlar. 7-bay range running parallel with main axis of mansion (q.v.) has both ends porticoed with 4 Tuscan Doric columns in antis and roundels in pediments. Longer sides have an additional basement storey, to east opening to a sunken service court; middle bay, which is wider and breaks forward below triangular pediment, has an arched carriage entry rising through both storeys. Ashlar ridge stacks flank central bay. Stone retaining walls, punctuated by low piers with vases and by flights of steps, extend around the west and north sides of the north terrace, curving around a stone basin and statue, and to south ramp up to a raised balustrade adjoining the panelled northern pier of the south-west gateway to the forecourt. The walls form part of an elaborate formal landscape scheme surrounding the mansion. (q.v. also east pavilion and south screen.) (Country Life, 18, 25 May 1940; National Trust Guidebook to Buscot Park).

Listing NGR: SU2426796849

Some rights reserved

Taken in: UK / England / Vale of White Horse District / Buscot (show map)

Taken on: September 11, 2024

Tags:

Buscot Park

Buscot

Vale of White Horse

Oxfordshire

Berkshire

England

United Kingdom

Great Britain

National Trust

Edward Loveden Loveden

Alexander Henderson

Baron Faringdon

Lord Faringdon

tree

trees

West Pavilion

Buscot Park: West Pavilion With Attached Terrace Walls and Gatepier

Geddes Hyslop

2nd Baron Faringdon

Limestone ashlar

Grade II listed building

Grade II listed « less

Sets appears in: • Country House at Buscot Park • Buscot Park

Groups appears in: • Stately Homes, Palaces and Castles • Flickr Friends of The Twentieth Century Society

Camera: Canon PowerShot SX70 HS, f/4.5, 1/400 sec, 9.6mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon PowerShot SX70 HS
Aperture:	f/4.5
Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/400)
Focal Length:	9.6mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Show full info

Stats: 95 views