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architecture, Cornwall, country house, eyecatcher, garden history, landscape, Mausoleum

Pentillie Mausoleum, Saltash, Cornwall

Posted on November 18, 2022by Editor
Pentillie Mausoleum, Saltash, Cornwall

In the early years of the 18th century Sir James Tillie updated his will and included a rather mysterious instruction about his last resting place. He was to be interred ‘in such a place at Pentillie Castle as I have acquainted my dearest Wife the Lady Elizabeth Tillie with.’

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architecture, Cumbria, Folly, garden, garden history, Grotto, landscape, Rustic shelter, Summerhouse

The Grotto, Rydal Hall, Cumbria

Posted on April 22, 2022by Editor
The Grotto, Rydal Hall, Cumbria

At Rydal Hall in Cumbria is an unassuming little garden building. It was built by Sir Daniel Fleming, in the last years of the 1680s, as a summerhouse from which to view of one of the series of cascades on the Rydal Beck that flowed though his estate.

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