Arcadia Discussion Zone

Wrest Park is now open to the public.

It can be confidently stated that Thomas Wright worked at Shugborough from 1748 – 1749 and was active in laying out the grounds and adding a library and dining room (formally the drawing room) for the soon to be wed George Anson and Elizabeth Yorke. In 1763 in letters to her brother Philip Yorke, Lady Anson speaks of the Shepherdess monument, some fourteen years after Wright is known to have been there. Wright had been a personal tutor to Philip Yorke’s wife (Lady Anson’s Sister in Law) and the Yorkes lived at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire where Wright built a Mithraic Altar and Root House (for Mithraic Priests), it is important to state that this altar also carries a cryptic message written in some kind of ancient cuneiform which is translated into Latin on the other side. Wright was in no doubt that the earth was nothing more than another planet in a giant collection of other stars and planets however he did have theories on the transmigration of the soul which was a theological doctrine that taught that the soul, after death, would inhabit a succession of other worlds, becoming progressively more prefect. Wright is particularly famous for building Follies in the gardens of English stately homes and wrote a book in 1755 describing designs for arbours and grottos which he called “Universal Architecture”. The shepherdess frieze itself was carved by the Dutch sculpturer Scheemaker but it is likely that he never saw the real painting but modelled his sculpture from a reversed print possibly copied by Lady Anson from Poussin’s Les Bergere d’Arcadie from Chatsworth. However the surrounding arch is generally thought to have been built by Thomas Wright.

It was probably Thomas Wright who wrote the cryptic message underneath the Shepherdess frieze at Shugborough.

Hodnet church, designed by Thomas Wright






These three themes for the stained glass windows at St Lukes church Hodnet, Shropshire are also found at Rennes le Chateau.



Hodnet Church has a round church tower

Message on the Mithraic Altar at Wrest Park.


Put up by Jemima, Marchioness de Grey, and Philip Yorke, her husband.

Philip Yorke was the brother of Elizabeth Yorke (Lady Anson of Shugborough) who copied the Poussin's Les Bergere d'Arcadie (1) from the Duke of Devonshire's collection at Chatsworth. Their father was Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, a member of the Middle Temple. This is located at the Temple Church. This is the church of Inner and Middle Temple, two of England’s four ancient societies of lawyers, the Inns of Court that originate from the Knights Templar.

Hodnet Church with Templar (astronomical Observation) Tower.


From Thomas Wrights book.


Thomas Wrights Folley tower at Westerton.


La Tour d'Alchemie Rennes le Chateau

All Astronomical Observation Towers.

Stunning photos Roscoe...many thanks for taking the time to post these...Very pleasurable to contemplate..

Sometimes a Folly is just a Folly

I pass this one in my area at least once a week

Penshaw monument

Penshaw Monument (officially The Earl of Durham's Monument) is a folly built in 1844 on Penshaw Hill between the districts of Washington and Houghton-le-Spring, within the City of Sunderland, North East England. It is dedicated to John George Lambton, first Earl of Durham and the first Governor of the Province of Canada.

The monument stands on Penshaw Hill, which is something of a toponymic peculiarity. Essentially the name is derived from a mixture of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon (or Old English) words. Pen is a Brythonic or Cumbric word for hill, as in the name Penrith; shaw is derived from sceaga meaning "wooded area"; and finally the Old/Middle/Modern English word "hill". Thus when fully translated, the name means "wooded-hill hill".



The foundation stone was laid by Thomas Dundas, 2nd Earl of Zetland (the Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England) on 28 August 1844.



Born in Marylebone, London, he was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1818 he was elected Whig Member of Parliament for his father and grandfather's old seat of Richmond, becoming representative for York twelve years later. In 1835 he returned to Parliament as member for Richmond, and four years later succeeded his father as second Earl of Zetland.

Like his father a prominent freemason, Lord Zetland was the United Grand Lodge of England's Grand Master from 1844 to 1870.

In the year of his succession to the earldom he was appointed Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the North Riding of Yorkshire, and in 1861 became a Knight of the Thistle. He resigned the Order on being made a Knight of the Garter in 1872, and died the following year at Aske Hall, Yorkshire.

you have to laugh ....it always comes back to a cross in the sky.

The order of the Thistle.

According to legend, Achaius, King of Scots (possibly coming to the aid of Óengus mac Fergusa, King of the Picts), while engaged in battle at Athelstaneford with the Saxon King Æthelstan of East Anglia, saw in the heavens the cross of St Andrew. After he won the battle, Achaius is said to have established the Order of the Thistle, dedicating it to the saint, in 786.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Thistle

looks like that is what is known as a borrowed landscape/scenery. This was/is a technique used to make your garden/estate look a lot bigger than it actually is. You buy a small piece of land outside your estate and then build something on it like a fountain etc. Then you create a view up to it and it creates the illusion that all the land in between is yours. Capability Brown was known for it.
It's a cheaper way of keeping up with the Joneses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borrowed_scenery

Ah the Seven Pillars of Wisdom

You'll know all about the Lampton Worm then. Just a silly song, isn't it?

And this of course

I just wonder why theres not a Dorabella Code topic here

Greets to everyone