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- In the eighteenth century, the powerful Temple-Grenville family chose to create an idyllic landscape filled with temples. Amidst these enchanting gardens (now cared for separately by the National Trust), they built the most lavish temple of all, Stowe House, famous during its eighteenth-century heyday as an important artistic masterpiece.
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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 been restored and maintained as one of the finest country houses in the UK.
History of Stowe House. Delve deeper into the tales of Stowe's past. Choose from a variety of history articles which navigate the family's rise and fall, the growth of this ducal palace and Stowe's transformation into a boarding school.
Amidst these enchanting gardens (now cared for separately by the National Trust), they built the most lavish temple of all, Stowe House, famous during its eighteenth-century heyday as an important artistic masterpiece. In 1922, in the face of demolition, Stowe School saved the building from certain destruction.
The first house at the site was built between 1677 and 1683 for the third baronet, Sir Richard Temple. Over the next century, the family significantly altered and enlarged both the house—a Georgian ducal nearly 1,000 feet wide—and its elaborately designed gardens.
Sep 22, 2023 · Stowe opened its doors just over a century ago, in May 1923, to 99 pupils. More arrived in the following term. Among the new intake was future actor David Niven, who deliciously describes his impressions and experiences in the autobiographical ‘The Moon’s a Balloon’.
Stowe house was built in the 1700s by the Temple-Grenville’s – an extraordinary family who came to Stowe as sheep farmers and rose to become one of the wealthiest & most powerful families in the country.
Jan 13, 2024 · The house has long been open to the public – guidebooks for Stowe exist from 1759 – but the Temple family who built Stowe could scarcely have imagined that the house would ever be home to quite...
