Looking east across the formal gardens towards Mentmore House

Date:
21 May 1886
Location:
Mentmore House, Mentmore, Mentmore Park, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire
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Mentmore Towers, Mentmore, Mentmore Park, Buckinghamshire
Reference:
BL06396
Type:
Photograph (Albumen Print)
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Description

Mentmore House, also known as Mentmore Towers, was built 1852-1854 by the architects Sir Joseph Paxton and G H Stokes for Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild. In 1878 Rothschild's daughter, Hannah, married Lord Rosebery, and the house and grounds became the Rosebery estate.

Content

This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series Of Photographic Negatives And Prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Architect: Paxton, Joseph

Owner: Rosebery

Person Of Historic Interest/Notable Pers: De Rothschild, Mayer Amschel

Architect: Stokes, G H

Keywords

Victorian Country House