Main entry:

Newman, Mark (Archaeologist), author.

Title & Author:

The wonder of the North : Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal / Mark Newman.

Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : The Boydell Press in association with National Trust, [2015]

Description:

xi, 394 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 32 cm

Series:

National Trust monographs

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-384) and index.
1.Priming the Canvas: Natural and Man-Made Landscapes Before 1132 -- 2.Utility and Sanctity: Fountains Abbey and its Surroundings, 1132 -- 1540 -- 3.From Dissolution to Resurrection: The Manors of Fountains and Studley, 1539 -- 1667 -- 4.Founding a Dynasty: The Emergence of Studley Royal -- 5.Emerging Wonders: The Unfolding of a Designed Landscape, 1723 -- 42 -- 6.Filling the Landscape: William Aislabie at Studley, 1742 -- 67 -- 7.Beyond Studley's Domain: Kirkby Fleetham, Hackfall, Laver Banks and Fountains -- 8.Estates Combined: Fountains and Studley, 1768 -- 81 -- 9.Arcadia Declining: The Estate in the Earlier Nineteenth Century -- 10.A Place of Popular Resort: The Rising Tide of Visitors -- 11.Relicts of Our Own Days.

Summary:

"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 Royal was 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)"--Jacket.

ISBN:

9781843838838 (hardcover)
1843838834 (hardcover)

Subject:

Fountains Abbey (North Yorkshire, England) History.
Fountains Abbey (North Yorkshire, England)
Gardens England North Yorkshire History.
Water gardens England North Yorkshire History.
Landscape architecture England North Yorkshire History.
Jardins d'eau Angleterre North Yorkshire Histoire.
Architecture du paysage Angleterre North Yorkshire Histoire.
Gardens
Landscape architecture
Water gardens
Landskapsarkitektur historia.
Kloster.
Ruiner.
Parker.
Världsarv.
Architecture and Planning.
Studley Royal Park (North Yorkshire, England) History.
England North Yorkshire

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

National Trust (Great Britain)
National Trust monongraphs.

Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293154
Call No.: BIB 237842
Status: Available