The Story of Stowe House: A School of Marble and Memory

In this episode of Your Places or Mine, they discuss Stowe House. What we see today is largely a product of the 18th-century owner Lord Cobham and his descendants. It was Cobham who employed 'Capability' Brown to turn Stowe into (to quote the poet Alexander Pope) 'as near an approach to Elysium as English soil and climate will permit. Sir John Vanbrugh, William Kent and Robert Adam were among the many architects who worked on the house.

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