Comments on: Beckford’s Tower, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset. https://thefollyflaneuse.com/beckfords-tower-bath-bath-north-east-somerset/ Rambles to, and ramblings about, Follies and Garden and Landscape Ornament. Fri, 07 Nov 2025 08:52:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: ‘The Gateway’, Breedon-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire – The Folly Flaneuse https://thefollyflaneuse.com/beckfords-tower-bath-bath-north-east-somerset/#comment-24539 Fri, 07 Nov 2025 08:52:17 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13239#comment-24539 […] A well-known landscape ornament has been in the news this week and deserves a mention. Beckford’s Tower, near Bath, won the Award for Restoration of a Georgian Building in a Landscape at the Georgian Group […]

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/beckfords-tower-bath-bath-north-east-somerset/#comment-16425 Mon, 11 Nov 2024 10:32:32 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13239#comment-16425 In reply to TOM GARDNER.

Hello Tom. Like William Beckford, your President Elect is also a builder of towers and always in the newspapers. I hope NYC is looking as lovely as Britain this autumn/fall.

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/beckfords-tower-bath-bath-north-east-somerset/#comment-16424 Mon, 11 Nov 2024 10:26:55 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13239#comment-16424 In reply to Iain KS Gray.

Good morning Iain. Yes, and another story is that Wyatt confessed on his death bed that the foundations of the tower were inadequate. Fonthill is endlessly fascinating.

]]> By: TOM GARDNER https://thefollyflaneuse.com/beckfords-tower-bath-bath-north-east-somerset/#comment-16415 Sun, 10 Nov 2024 22:28:41 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13239#comment-16415 TOM – NYC
NOW THAT TRUMP IS OUR ‘PRES. ELECT’ … ‘MAR-A-LAGO’ IS SAFE FOR AT LEAST ANOTHER FOUR YEARS.
HAVING BEEN – THE FOURTH FOOTMAN, AKA JR. BUTLER (C. 1967) – ONE OF 45 IN STAFF, FOR: ITS ‘ORIGINAL’ OWNER -BUILDER: MRS. MERRIEWEATHER POST – I FULLY APPRECIATE, VIEWING THE HISTORY OF MASTERPIECES IN STRUCTURES.
TRULY, ‘A MAN’S GRASP (FEMALES TOO) SHOULD EXCEED HIS REACH, OR …
WHAT’S A HEAVEN FOR?’

]]> By: Iain KS Gray https://thefollyflaneuse.com/beckfords-tower-bath-bath-north-east-somerset/#comment-16409 Sun, 10 Nov 2024 17:49:13 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13239#comment-16409 The buyer of Fonthill Abbey, a Mr Farquarson I think, was said to have been warned by one of his staff that the tower was about to fall to which he is supposed to have replied “Impossible, I have the key in my pocket”.

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/beckfords-tower-bath-bath-north-east-somerset/#comment-16386 Sat, 09 Nov 2024 17:00:17 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13239#comment-16386 In reply to John St B H.

Hello John. Surely it’s never too late to try? I look forward to hearing how you get on!

]]> By: John St B H https://thefollyflaneuse.com/beckfords-tower-bath-bath-north-east-somerset/#comment-16385 Sat, 09 Nov 2024 16:54:51 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13239#comment-16385 Oh Karen! How I wish I were a “capricious voluptuary” Alas I think it could never be.

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/beckfords-tower-bath-bath-north-east-somerset/#comment-16380 Sat, 09 Nov 2024 08:03:11 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13239#comment-16380 In reply to James.

Good morning James. I’m pleased to hear you have visited the tower. The museum packs a lot into the very elegant space it occupies. There was a queue for the viewer so I missed out on that, but I will try it next time I am in the area.

]]> By: James https://thefollyflaneuse.com/beckfords-tower-bath-bath-north-east-somerset/#comment-16379 Sat, 09 Nov 2024 07:42:23 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=13239#comment-16379 I was there just 2 months ago, during the Bath Jane Austen Festival. I haven’t been in about 20 years and was pleasantly surprised by the interpretation and presentation of the tower and the life of William Beckford. You can even wear a viewer to show the rooms as they would have looked in 3D!

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