Henry Hoare – London
banker
Colon Campbell –
designer of the house (1722)
Henry Hoare II (1726-1734)
Henry Flitcroft
Hoare II
Experiences with death:
Hoare
II’s father dies when he is 19 – in 1725
First
wife dies in 1728
1735
- a daughter dies
1740
- a son dies at age 7
1741
- his mother dies (Hoare takes up residence at Stourhead)
1743
- his second wife dies
1752
- his son Henry III dies at age 21
Theme of love, death, and
triumph over death
1744 Hoare II begins work on
Garden
Itinerary of the Garden
• 1st Building
Temple
of Ceres (1745) – Later renamed Flora
• The Lakeside Grotto
(1748)
• The Pantheon (1753-54)
• The Lake (Enlarged
1754)
• The Temple of Apollo
(1757)
• The Five Arched Stone
Palladian Bridge (1760)
• Hermitage Structure (Hermitage—a secluded retreat) in a distant wood and the roadway underpass in the form of a grotto—below the Temple of Apollo (1760-70)
• The Erection of the
Bristol Cross near Stourton Church (1765).
Themes:
• Memorial to the Dead
The
perseverance of the survivors
• Classical Landscape
frames a vision of England
• Presenting an age and a
culture—seen and framed in terms of another.
Significance
of Stourhead
At
Stourhead, thematic content and physical form are so well integrated as to be
indistinguishable.