Stowe House & Gardens
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An Art Society St Albans trip. We walked around the House and Gardens on 10th July 2024. Warm and sunny day and we didn't see all the temples on offer!
 Map of the walk from GPS |
 Stowe House which has 400 rooms! It houses Stowe School with 900 pupils.
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 Our Coach and George1 |
 A worried Lion on Guard |
 Laocoon and his sons |
 A domed ceiling |
My camera needed a wider lens to record the domed central room fully |
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 The Frieze was produced by Wedgewood |
 Venus? |
 'Door Bell |
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 Wet Weather Entrance below the main entrance |
 Used as the School Dining Hall. The tapestries are copies |
 Tapestry Lion detail |
 Arts Library ceiling |
 Bas Relief |
 Ceiling |
 Refurbishment of the house cost £25million |
 The Arts Library |
 The Music Room |
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 Prince Charles |
 "Bull Rhino" |
 The Blue Room |
 Our humorous Guide |
 The Library |
 "Secret" door to the Library Gallery |
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 A Chandelier |
 Richard Grenville 2nd Earl Temple |
 Samson slays a Philistine |
 View from the house |
 2nd Duke of Buckingham who owed more than anyone in the world |
 Egyptian Room |
 Plaster Head, Charlton Heston? |
 Boy and Dolphin |
 All the Dukes spent their wives and the family money like water and before the sale of 1848 the Duke had the largest debt in the world. |
 The Fab Four |
 Self Portrait Sir David Wynne |
 Oh No! |
 The Cricket Pavilion |
 Long Walk |
 Muse of Pastoral Poetry |
 The New Inn for lunch |
 The Yard of the New Inn |
 Parlour Rooms, Kitchen |
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 Study |
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Dining Room |
 Kennels |
 Monet? |
 Eastern Lake Pavilion |
 Looking back at the House |
 The Cascade |
 An Avenue |
 Elysian Fields |
 The Temple of Venus |
 The Pebble Alcove |
 Rotunda |
 Corinthian Arch |
 "Ruins" |
 Palladian Bridge |
 Secret View |
 Lord Cobham's Pillar |
 Gothic Temple |
 Grotto |
 Water Lilies |
 A Crow |
 Camera Phone in use |
 Chinese House ((from a Post Card) |
