Sanderson Miller
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Sanderson Miller was an English pioneer of Gothic revival architecture and landscape designer. He is noted for adding follies or other Picturesque garden buildings and features to the grounds of an es
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Wimpole's Folly, a mock semi-ruined castle designed by Miller, on the grounds of Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire
The Octagonal Tower at Edge Hill, Warwickshire
Hagley Hall in Worcestershire, where George Lyttelton insisted on a classical style for the main house. Miller landscaped the grounds and added a Gothic "ruined" castle.
Sham Castle
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Sham Castle is a folly on Claverton Down overlooking the city of Bath, Somerset, England. It is a Grade II* listed building. It is a screen wall with a central pointed arch flanked by two 3-storey cir
Sanderson Miller
…Staffordshire, though this last has since been demolished. Other places to which he contributed include Farnborough Hall, Wroxton Abbey, Upton House, Sham Castle, Siston Court and Tudor Court, Hanworth Park, the surviving part of a Royal hunting lodge used by Henry VIII. Miller married Susanna, daughter of Edward…
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Rear view of Sham Castle, showing that the castle was intended to be viewed only from the front.