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P. Inskip

Abstract

Conservation of the garden monuments at Stowe: the Temple of Concord and Victory P. Inskip Peter Inskip & Peter Jenkins Architects Ltd, London, UK It is extremely important to recognise that the development of the Gardens at Stowe was parallel and integral to the evolution of Stowe House and as such one cannot be separated from the other; both result from processes of continual change throughout the eighteenth century. Whilst Stowe House was constantly being added to and remodelled, parallel developments in the Gardens entailed the redistribution of statues as well as the wholesale demolition and rebuilding of temples as new landscapes were formed to suit the tastes and ambitions of three generations of the Temple and Grenville families. Stowe House, built by Sir Richard Temple between 1677 and 1683, was remodelled for Lord Cobham by Sir John Vanbrugh after 1717 and subsequently extended by a succession of architects with the result that by the middle o

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