Paul Holberton Publishing

Prompted by the recent discovery of a 3-metre tall Gothic drawing of a soaring tower that was never built, this book offers a rare insight into the processes of designing and building a major Gothic project. Who drew this, and when? This book explores these questions, and uncovers the dramatic circumstances in which the drawing was created.

"Photography by Richard Valencia and Hattie Young (2017) and Matthew Hollow and Christopher Simon Sykes (2005)"-- Title page verso.

Stowe isn't a garden of flowers or shrubs; it's a garden of ideas. This important new collection of essays and artwork brings together ideas from some of the leading thinkers on landscape design, exploring the gardens at Stowe as a site of conflict between order and disorder.