Stourhead, Mere, Wiltshire - Gardens, the Pantheon - National Trust postcard

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Stourhead Gardens, The Pantheon, Wiltshire c.1970s
• Publisher:  National Trust / Judges of Hastings
• Postally used:  no - hand dated 1976
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s): n/a
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Stourhead (pron.: /'st???h?d/^[1]) is a 1,072-hectare (2,650-acre) estate^[2] at the source of the River Stour near Mere, Wiltshire, England. The estate includes a Palladian mansion, the village of Stourton, gardens, farmland, and woodland. Stourhead has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1946.

The Stourton family, the Barons of Stourton, had lived in the Stourhead estate for 500 years^[3] until they sold it to Sir Thomas Meres in 1714.^[4] His son, John Meres, sold it to Henry Hoare I, son of wealthy banker Sir Richard Hoare in 1717.^[5] The original manor house was demolished and a new house, one of the first of its kind, was designed by Colen Campbell and built by Nathaniel Ireson between 1721 and 1725.^[6] Over the next 200 years the Hoare family collected many heirlooms, including a large library and art collection.^[7] In 1902 the house was gutted by fire.^[7] However, many of the heirlooms were saved, and the house rebuilt in a near identical style.^[7] The last Hoare family member to own the property, Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, gave the Stourhead house and gardens to the National Trust in 1946, one year before his death.^[7] His sole heir and son, Captain ""Harry"" Henry Colt Arthur Hoare, of the Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry, had died of wounds received at the Battle of Mughar Ridge on 13 November 1917 in World War I.^[7] Captain ""Harry"" Hoare is commemorated by a plaque on the Memorial Hall at Stourhead. The last Hoare family member to be born inside the house is Edward Hoare on 11 October 1949.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=wiltshire

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted