Comments on: The Tower, Chinthurst Hill, Wonersh, Surrey https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-tower-chinthurst-hill-wonersh-surrey/ Rambles to, and ramblings about, Follies and Garden and Landscape Ornament. Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:13:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Alan Moule https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-tower-chinthurst-hill-wonersh-surrey/#comment-24517 Wed, 05 Nov 2025 10:20:16 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=15568#comment-24517 In reply to Editor.

Thank you for the speedy reply! I’m sure I can wait, in the meantime I have also been inspired to visit and research other, local to me (North west Worcestershire and south Shropshire), landscape structures of interest.
Good luck with the ongoing work, I can only imagine the research necessary for each post that you do.

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-tower-chinthurst-hill-wonersh-surrey/#comment-24516 Wed, 05 Nov 2025 10:05:12 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=15568#comment-24516 In reply to Alan Moule.

Good morning Alan, and thank you for the kind words. The Clent Castle folly is familiar to me only from photographs and descriptions in the main folly texts, so you have inspired me to investigate further. Please be aware that I have a rather long list awaiting research, so I hope you can be patient!

]]> By: Alan Moule https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-tower-chinthurst-hill-wonersh-surrey/#comment-24515 Wed, 05 Nov 2025 09:58:16 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=15568#comment-24515 I have only recently come across this wonderful site, well done to The Folly Flaneuse for providing such a detailed and informative account of Follies and all “odd” Landscape Ornaments.
As a new reader, have you researched The Clent Castle folly? Built in the grounds of Clent Grove, now a Children’s home (Sunfield) with limited access to the folly? Built by Thomas Leill in the late 18th. I would be intrigued to know more if it has been recorded on your site before.
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1301122

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-tower-chinthurst-hill-wonersh-surrey/#comment-24479 Sat, 01 Nov 2025 12:59:26 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=15568#comment-24479 In reply to John Davies.

Thank you John. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any mention of the designer or of a planning application. As ever, my hope is that these posts start conversations and that somebody out there can add to the story. The restoration does seem to have left the tower in pretty good shape externally, it’s just a shame there is no access to the interior because of the actions of hooligans.

]]> By: John Davies https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-tower-chinthurst-hill-wonersh-surrey/#comment-24478 Sat, 01 Nov 2025 10:32:19 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=15568#comment-24478 Well done FF, fascinating to read about such a modern folly, and surprising that in this era the identity of the designer is lost. I think planning control started in 1933 (?) so one might expect some record…… From your photos it looks like a nice piece of stonework, very nicely pointed, which should help it survive the weather, if not vandals.

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