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Item Number: 134686
Title: The Wonder of the North: Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal
Author: Newman, Mark
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781843838838
Description: Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2015. 31cm., hardcover, 300pp. illus. Summary: Described as "The Wonder of the North" in 1729, the Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal World Heritage Site in north Yorkshire is one of the world's most beautiful and magnificent designed landscapes. This volume, based on 25 years' research, for the first time tells its full story, from prehistory through the middle ages to the Victorian era. It charts the rise and fall of England's largest Cistercian monastery, and reveals the hitherto lost history and scale of the Aislabie family's Studley Royal designed landscape, at the forefront of every emergent garden fashion of the eighteenth century.
Contents: 1 Introduction: The Wonder of the North. 2 Utility and Sanctity: Medieval and Earlier Landscapes. 3 From Dissolution to Resurrection: Fountains and Studley, 1539-1667. 4 Founding a Dynasty: The Emergence of Studley Royal. 5 The Wonder of the North: Emergence of a Designed Landscape, 1723-42. 6 Filling the Landscape: William Aislabie at Studley, 1742-67. 7 Beyond Studley's Domain: Kirby Fleetham, Hackfall, Laver Banks and Fountains. 8 Estates combined: Fountains and Studley 1768-81. Wider still and wider. 9 Arcadia declining: The estate in the earlier nineteenth century. 10 A Place of Popular Resort. 11 Relicts of our own days. 12 Conclusion: A Future for Studley Royal.
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