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Mount Stuart

Travel guide extract in Rough Guide Guide about Mount Stuart from Mar 2000

Overall rating:
100 out of 100


Rough Guide Guide   
Author:   The Rough Guide to Britain Team
Date posted:13.12.2006 10:47
Found by:weetoon, Ecosse


"Must See"-Factor
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Architecture
100 out of 100
Condition
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Historical Significance
100 out of 100

According to this guide book, Mount Stuart is "a very good reason" for visiting the Isle of Bute. Once the home of the "fantastically wealthy" seventh Marquess of Bute, it was in fact the third marquess who had it built into the "incredible Gothic fancy" we see today. The architecture of Mount Stuart was inspired by ideas obtained "all over Europe". The Marquess used the craftsmen who had previously worked on his "Medieval concoction at Cardiff Castle" to decorate the "sumptuous interior". The eighteenth century gardens were the work of the third Earl of Bute who "had a hand" in Kew Gardens in London, to which these gardens measure up. ("Rough Guide to Britain"; Page 926; Published 2000. ISBN 1-85828-513-5)
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