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Description: | Triangular brick tower with three rounded angle turrets, one carried higher to contain stairs to the top platform. Details of doorway, inscription plate above and a statue of King Alfred above this. Ten windows in the west triangle, castelated roofline. Additional Information: Henry Hoare, with a fortune based on banking in the City of London, spend much of his life improving the great estate of Stourhead. The great interest in landscape and improving the environment by many of Englands great landowners was typical of his time. He based his design on the plan of the St Marco Tower in Venice to commemmorate the victory of King Alfred in 879 against the Danes, which established the boundary of Saxons and Britons.King Alfred had been in hiding among the watery vastness of the Somerset Levels at Athelney and came to Kingsettle Hill to do battle. | Subjects: | Tower | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Benefactor: Hoare, Henry | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=6809... | Go to resource |
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