'The Flower of All the Private Gentlemens Palaces in England': Sir Stephen Fox's 'Extraordinarily Fine' Garden at Chiswick

Jeffery, Sally

doi:10.2307/1587310

Garden History

2004

DOI: 10.2307/1587310

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'The Flower of All the Private Gentlemens Palaces in England': Sir Stephen Fox's 'Extraordinarily Fine' Garden at Chiswick

Sally Jeffery¹

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“… 72 For details of Office of Works posts, see Colvin et al 1976. For details relating to Sir Stephen Fox’s house in Chiswick, see Jeffery 2004. …”

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Moor Park in the Seventeenth Century

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Wrightson³

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The surviving fabric of the house at Moor Park, near Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, built in 1679–84 for the Duke and Duchess of Monmouth on the site of an older house, is hidden inside the present stone casing by James Thornhill of c 1725. Its design is attributed to Hugh May, and it was constructed by a team of Office of Works craftsmen, many of whom were working with May at Windsor Castle, Berkshire. Analysis of the remaining structure, together with new research into the documentary evidence, has permitted a reconstruction of the roof along with partly conjectural reconstructions of the elevations and of some interior features. The study throws light on the process of commissioning, building and interior finishing of the house, the materials used, the close-knit circle of architects and craftsmen involved and the possible intervention of the clients. It illustrates the originality of the designs and is compared to May’s other works and other houses of the period.

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“… 72 For details of Office of Works posts, see Colvin et al 1976. For details relating to Sir Stephen Fox’s house in Chiswick, see Jeffery 2004. …”

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Wrightson³

2016

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Pope at Chiswick

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Alexander Pope celebrated the virtues of the domestic throughout his life and yet one of his homes, Chiswick, remains largely neglected by scholarship. This article considers why the poet was drawn to the village in 1716, describes the resort in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and discusses why he found residence there to be uncomfortable. I further argue that the discontents of this period were expressed in the texture of his epistolary prose. Attention to the locale finally affords a keener understanding of his more celebrated homes in Windsor Forest and Twickenham.

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'The Flower of All the Private Gentlemens Palaces in England': Sir Stephen Fox's 'Extraordinarily Fine' Garden at Chiswick

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