Garendon Abbey
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Garendon Abbey was a Cistercian abbey located between Shepshed and Loughborough, in Leicestershire, United Kingdom.
"The Temple of Venus": one of the Palladian follies built when the abbey's former estate was landscaped
Garendon Abbey Chapter House foundations
Garendon Abbey remains of drain
Garendon Abbey monastic fish ponds
Garendon Hall
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Garendon Hall was a country home near Shepshed, Leicestershire, England. It was demolished in 1964.
Garendon Abbey
…which still exist. Ambrose later began to redesign, extend and rebuild Garendon House in the Palladian style, developing it into what would be known as Garendon Hall. However, the work remained unfinished in 1737 when Ambrose died childless; it was completed by the heir to the estate, his brother Samuel. Following…
Garendon Hall c. 1890. Showing the 18th-century Classical style house, with the "rather horrible" 19th-century Gothic mansard roof.
Augustus Pugin's unexecuted design for Garendon Hall
The Obelisk