William Andrews Nesfield
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William Andrews Nesfield was an English soldier, landscape architect and artist. After a career in the military which saw him serve under the Duke of Wellington, he developed a second profession as a
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Witley Court fountain
The Pagoda Vista in Kew Gardens
Witley Court
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Witley Court, in Great Witley, Worcestershire, England, is a ruined Italianate mansion. Built for the Foleys in the seventeenth century on the site of a former manor house, it was enormously expanded
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…Wellington, he developed a second profession as a landscape architect, designing some of the foremost gardens of the mid-Victorian era. These included Witley Court in Worcestershire, Castle Howard in Yorkshire, Treberfydd in Powys and Kew Gardens. He also established a professional dynasty; with his sons Arthur…
Witley Court and the Perseus and Andromeda Fountain
Ascension of Jesus Christ by Antonio Bellucci – ceiling painting in Great Witley Church, the former Chapel of the House
Witley Court in 1880