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©Colin Pyle
Dist:0.5km<br/>Picture taken from by the Mausoleum, Stone Road, Trentham - hence the grave stones in the foreground. See the Mausoleum:- http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/335696 From an 1851 journal:- "Trentham Hall is the principal residence of the Most Noble George Granville Leveson Gower, Duke of Sutherland, Marquis of Stafford, Earl Gower, Viscount Trentham, and Hereditary Sheriff of Sutherland. It is an elegant mansion, situated near the village in a park of 500 acres. It has been entirely rebuilt during the last 14 years, and now has an elegant stone front and a lofty square tower."
©Steven Birks
Dist:0.6km<br/>Opposite the main gates of Trentham Gardens is the only grade I listed building in Stoke-on-Trent. It features a solid oak door at the front, a window at the rear and an upper storey with four louvred windows, one on each flank. The gloomy interior, with its Greek Cross plan, has tunnel-vaulted arms. The ashlar walls slope inwards on all sides. This mausoleum was built in 1807-8 to the design of Charles Heathcote Tatham of Trentham. In 1907 the bodies of the half-dozen members of the Levison-Gower family laid to rest in the catacombs were removed and buried in special lead coffins elsewhere within the cemetery compound; descriptive tablets were placed above each grave.
©Steven Birks
Dist:0.6km<br/>The original Trentham Hall was built in the 1630s for the Dukes of Sutherland. The Caroline house was replaced in the early eighteenth century by one in a Classical style. Capability Brown and Henry Holland worked on the landscape and hall between 1768 and 1778. Capability Brown also proposed diverting the River Trent so it flowed into the lake; the river was diverted back to its original course in 1853. The house was redesigned in an Italianate style in the nineteenth century by Sir Charles Barry, who also laid out Italian gardens to the front of the hall. Trentham Hall was abandoned by the family as a permanent residence in 1905. In 1910 the Duke of Sutherland offered the hall to the County of Staffordshire and the Borough of Stoke-on-Trent. The offer was refused and the building was demolished, apart from the west front and stable block. The tower was re-erected on the Sandon Hall Estate. Today the grounds have been developed as an exhibition, conference and leisure centre.
©Richard Styles
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©Kevin Rushton
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©Kevin Rushton
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©David Anstiss
Dist:0.7km<br/>Shrubs and flowers beginning to grow
©Michael Westley
Dist:0.7km<br/>Centrepiece fountain in box Topiary and annual beds garden, on the top terrace of the formal gardens.
©David Anstiss
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©Kevin Rushton
Dist:0.8km<br/>Steel arches clothed by climbing roses.
©David Anstiss
Dist:0.8km<br/>In gardens near Italian Gardens
©Michael Westley
Dist:0.8km<br/>Beautiful Italian Gardens at Trentham
©Kevin Rushton
Dist:0.8km<br/>In northern section of gardens, near fountain.
©Michael Westley
Dist:0.8km<br/>Italian Garden
©Kevin Rushton

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