Stowe House
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Stowe House is a Grade I listed country house in Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England. It is the home of the private Stowe School and is owned by the Stowe House Preservation Trust. Over the years, it has
The south front of the house by Robert Adam
The south or garden front of Stowe from Jones' Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen (1829). All of the top floor windows in the earlier version of this front were sacrificed for the sake of architectural effect. The remaining top floor rooms all face sideways.
Stowe circa 1880
The north or entrance front in 1750. Major alterations were made after that date.
John Vanbrugh
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Sir John Vanbrugh was an English architect, dramatist and herald, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. He wrote two argumentative and outspoken Restoration comedies
Stowe House
…of Coleshill. From the 1720s to 1733, under Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, additions to the house included the Ionic north tetrastyle portico by John Vanbrugh, as well as the re-building of the north, east and west fronts. After Vanburgh's death in 1726, work continued under William Kent, and it was probably…
Portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller, c. 1705
Sketch of the infamous French state prison the Bastille in Paris, where Vanbrugh was incarcerated
The Queen's Theatre, by William Capon
Vanbrugh Castle in Greenwich, south London