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3. Justification for Inscription
use of copses and clumps of trees
have little in common with the way features
such as these were used in later landscape
gardens.
Topical Comparison
Summer residence: Country house of
the Howard family, Earls of Carlisle; the
traditional type of the summer residence,
including a court and topographically aligned
with the main residence, is not found in
Britain; Castle Howard is a country seat
closely integrated into the surrounding
countryside, with the connections easily
discernible even today – the most striking
example being perhaps the axial arrangement
of the road towards the obelisk, visible from a
long distance away.
Synthesis of gardening styles: Castle Howard
did not have a formal, Baroque phase; with
the exception of the separate walled gardens, a
formal layout was only created in the mid-
19th-century, in the shape of the “Baroque
revival” parterre by Nesbit.
Furnishing: Numerous sculptures and all the
abovementioned follies created in the 18thcentury
have survived.
Technical monuments: none documented.
Authenticity: Palace complete with interior
furnishing and collections preserved in
its 18th- and in some cases 19th-century
appearance; the garden with the exception of
the parterre mostly retains that of the time of
its creation, the early 18th-century.
Summary
There is little that lends itself to comparison
in the cases of Schwetzingen and Castle
Howard; the latter represents a special variety
of a garden in the transition phase between
Baroque and landscape that only occurred in
England. The fact that at Castle Howard there
was no feudal estate to provide the origin
and centre of the garden makes for a massive
difference; today’s formal parterre was almost
an afterthought created around the middle of
the 19th-century.
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