Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens
Stoke Poges, Bucks Mon 11 Nov 2019
The main avenue of the Memorial Gardens
This urn had four sides for the four seasons - this is Winter
One of the Parterre Gardens with box hedges
The Colonnade
Repton Bridge built in 1792 was resroted in 2003-5. Grad II*
Stoke Park Mansion was designed by RObert Naismith for John Penn and
was completed in 1813
The Rock and Water Gardens
Manor House (Grade I listed) built in 1555 for Edward Hastings. Queen
Elizabeth I stayed here, King Charles I
was imprisoned here and King WIlliam III was refused entry.
One of the 500 gated family gardens
Stoke Park across the Rock and Water Garden
Stoke Poges Church - Saxon, Norman, Early Gothic and Tudor
Thomas Gray's Tomb (grade II) with a stone plaque on the wall behind
A splendid tree in the churchyard, a few yards from the yew beneath
which Gray wrote his elegy
The church interior is worth a visit and has some very varied stained
(and painted) glass
and a few interesting monuments
Stoke Park
The Manor House
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