Fonthill Abbey
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Fonthill Abbey—also known as Beckford's Folly—was a large Gothic Revival country house built between 1796 and 1813 at Fonthill Gifford in Wiltshire, England, at the direction of William Beckford and a
View of the west and north fronts from John Rutter's Delineations of Fonthill (1823)
Cross section of Fonthill Abbey made in 1823
Wyatt's projected design for Fonthill from the west in 1798
Fonthill Abbey from the South West (J. M. W. Turner, 1799)
James Wyatt
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James Wyatt was an English architect who was a rival of Robert Adam in the neoclassical and neo-Gothic styles. He was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1785 and was its president from 1805 to 18
Fonthill Abbey
…Gothic Revival country house built between 1796 and 1813 at Fonthill Gifford in Wiltshire, England, at the direction of William Beckford and architect James Wyatt. It was built near the site of the Palladian house later known as Fonthill Splendens, which had been constructed by 1770 by Beckford's father William…
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