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  InJames Wyatt

  …which the most sensational wasFonthill Abbey (1796–1807), Wiltshire. Initially this was built as a landscape feature, and it eventually developed into an extraordinary home for the arch-Romantic William Beckford, who supervised its design and construction. The great central tower (270 feet [82 metres]) collapsed in 1807, and after Beckford…

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home of Beckford

• InWilliam Beckford

  …is renowned for having builtFonthill Abbey, the most sensational building of the English Gothic Revival.

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importance in Gothic Revival

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  InGothic Revival

  …toward ornamentation and decoration wasFonthill Abbey, designed by James Wyatt, a country house with a tower 270 feet (82 metres) high. Nothing could more clearly illustrate both the impracticality of usage and the romantic associations with medieval life.

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  InWestern architecture: From the 17th to the 19th century

  …all Gothic Revival buildings was Fonthill Abbey (1796–1806), Wiltshire, designed by James Wyatt primarily as a landscape feature for the arch-Romantic William Beckford. The great central tower collapsed in 1807, and most of the building has today disappeared; but, in John Rutter’sDelineations of Fonthill (1823), it is still possible…

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