The Wonder of the North

Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-84383-883-8
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 406 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 214 mm x 315 mm, Gewicht: 1848 g

Reihe: National Trust Monographs

A history and tour of this exceptionally beautiful designed landscape in North Yorkshire.

Dubbed "the Wonder of the North" in 1732, the National Trust's Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Estate (now a World Heritage Site) encompasses one of the largest, most magnificent and beautiful designed landscapes ever created. This richly illustrated volume charts the landscape's history from the first arrival of prehistoric hunters, via medieval monasticism, the Dissolution of the monasteries, eighteenth-century aestheticism and scandal, and the first ages of mass tourism, to the present day. At the heart of the story lies the rise and fall of England's largest Cistercian monastery and how that shaped the origins of the Aislabie family's breathtaking gardens. Their Studley Royalwas at the forefront of every emergent landscape gardening fashion between 1670 and 1800. The book also describes the dramatic history of the family and the monumental scale of their achievements in this field, extending over many dozens of square miles of North Yorkshire - far beyond the limits of the garden as it is seen today (reduced to serve the more limited needs of Victorian day-trippers).
The Wonder of the North brings social and garden history together with archaeology to reveal Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal - too often seen as "just" a ruined medieval monastery - as one of the world's greatest artistic creations.

Mark Newman has been the National Trust's archaeological adviser for Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal estate since 1988. He was also resident there, living in Fountains Hall from 1988-1995.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newman, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: The 'Wonder of the North'
Priming the Canvas: Natural and Man-Made Landscapes Before 1132
Utility and Sanctity: Fountains Abbey and its Surroundings 1132-1540
From Dissolution to Resurrection: The Manors of Fountains and Studley, 1539-1667
Founding a Dynasty: The Emergence of Studley Royal
Emerging Wonders: The Unfolding of a Designed Landscape, 1723-42
Filling the Landscape: William Aislabie at Studley, 1742-67
Beyond Studley's Domain: Kirkby Fleetham, Hackfall, Laver Banks and Fountains
Estates Combined: Fountains and Studley, 1768-81
Arcadia Declining: The Estate in the Earlier Nineteenth Century
A Place of Popular Resort: The Rising Tide of Visitors
Relicts of Our Own Days
Conclusion: A Future for Studley Royal

Über Autor(innen)

• 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