S t o w e  G a r d e n s

Q u e e n  C a r o l i n e 's  M o n u m e n t

&  T h e  C l o s e t

This monument to Queen Caroline, was built in 1726 when she was the Princess of Wales. It originally stood between the Rotunda, in the centre of the Home Park, and her husband's monument on the South Front lawn, later renamed to the King George II monument, when he ascended to the throne in 1727. It now stands at its current location, where the Fane of Pastoral Poetry once stood, on a grassy mound at the edge of the woods, in the southwestern end of Home Park. it comprises four fluted Ionic columns on a square plinth supporting the statue of the Queen, thought to have been sculpted by Rysbrack.

 

T h e   I m p e r i a l  C l o s e t

Halfway up the Warden's walk towards the Boycott Pavilions, and hidden on the edge of the woods, stands this curious little building, the Imperial Closet. It is believed to have been used as a sentry box, perhaps to greet visitors to the gardens from the Eastern gate, but by whom and when it was designed and built is un-clear..

Keeping the Golf course to the left, the visitor can proceed along the western bank of the Eleven Acre lake towards Gurnet's Walk, where the path meets the Octagon lake again, and there turns Northeast and onward to the Rotondo at the centre of Home Park.

Below: The path around the lake meets up at the opposite side of the Eleven Acre Cascade bridge. The visitor may here turn right into Gurnet's Walk and head toward the Golf Course and the Rotondo.

Above: Lakeside Pavilion and Octagon Lake. Below: The distant Rotondo, or Rotunda.

 

 

 

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