Having saved his Country from a foreign Master, The Knowledge and Glory of the English Name. Who, through many Perils, was the first of BritonsĪnd carried into unknown Seas and Nations In Defence of the Liberties of his Country Who with great Spirit, and consummate Abilities,īegun a noble Opposition to an arbitrary Court, Over the rights, the consciences, or the reason of mankind.
The nature, end, and bounds of civil government Īnd with equal courage and sagacity, refused Whose Arms he had vanquish'd, and whose Designs he oppos'd. Who endeavouring to rouze the Spirit of his Master,įor the Honour of his Country, against the Ambition of Spain,įell a Sacrifice to the Influence of that Court, The God of Nature made to comprehend his Works Īnd from simple Principles, to discover the Laws never known before,Īnd to explain the Appearance never understood,Ī valiant Soldier, and an able Statesman The busts in the Temple of British Worthies, with the inscription in English on a stone tablet above each one just under each pediment The choice of who was considered a 'British Worthy' was very much influenced by the Whig politics of the family, the chosen individuals falling into two groups, eight known for their actions and eight known for their thoughts and ideas. There are three broad steps following the curving wall. There is a small pediment above each niche that breaks forward slightly from the wall. These are filled by busts, half carved by John Michael Rysbrack these are John Milton, William Shakespeare, John Locke, Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Francis Bacon, Elizabeth I, William III and Inigo Jones the other eight are by Peter Scheemakers these are Alexander Pope, Sir Thomas Gresham, King Alfred the Great, The Black Prince, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake, John Hampden and Sir John Barnard (Whig MP and opponent of the Whig Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole). With further niches on the two ends of the wall and two more behind. The curving wall contains 6 niches either side of the central pier. Built of stone, it is a curving roofless exedra with a large stone pier in the centre surmounted by a stepped pyramid containing an oval niche that contains a bust of Mercury, a copy of the original.
In this case they are unfluted Ionic columns, 16 in number, raised on a podium. * The Temple of Ancient Virtue built in 1737 to the designs of Kent, in the form of a Tholos, a circular domed building surrounded by columns. Caroline Mary, his wife, known as May, died in 1972 Thomas Close Smith himself was the High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1942, and died in 1946. Thomas Close-Smith of Boycott Manor, eldest daughter of the 11th Lady Kinloss, who was the eldest daughter of the 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. The church contains a fine Sir Laurence Whistler CBE etched glass window in memory of The Hon. Lancelot "Capability" Brown was married in the church in 1744. Dating from the 14th century, the building consists of a nave with aisles and a west tower, a chancel with a chapel to the north and an east window c.1300 with reticulated tracery. This is the only surviving structure from the old village of Stowe.
THE MAN IN THE ELYSIAN FIELD SERIES
There is a series of buildings and monuments surrounding two narrow lakes, called the river Styx, that step down to a branch of the Octagon Lake. Is to the immediate east of the South Vista, designed by William Kent, work started on this area of the gardens in 1734.
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