Mount Stuart - an architectural fantasy
Today we visited the Mount Stuart estate on the Isle of Bute, a very special experience.
The Mount Stuart house is amazing! To quote the brochure, 'Mount Stuart, Britain's most spectacular Victorian Gothic house, is the architectural fantasy of the 3rd Marquess of Bute and his architect Sir Robert Rowand Anderson'. The interiors are 'stunning' and 'mysterious' and 'reflect the romantic and scholarly Marquess's passion for art, heraldry, astrology, mythology and religion'. Every room was highly decorated, from the brass door hinges with different floral motifs for each room to the elaborately painted ceilings, the marble columns in a variety of different stones, the stained glass windows in the great hall in seasonal themes and the windows in the chapel in beautiful deep red glass which lent a rosy hue to the marble. All totally over the top and utterly beautiful!
We also enjoyed the gardens - the avenues of spruce, the autumn foliage in the rock garden, a woodland walk beside a racing brook up the hill to the tranquil Calvary Pond, and the conservatory where exotic plants had been allowed to run wild.
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| The Rock Garden |
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| Calvary Pond |
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