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Kings Weston House is a historic building in Kings Weston Lane, Kingsweston, Bristol, England.[1]

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  1. 60 relations: Avon Gorge, Avonmouth, Banqueting house, Bath stone, Bath, Somerset, Belvedere (structure), Bewys Cross, Blaise Castle Estate, Blenheim Palace, Bristol, Bristol Archives, Bristol City Council, Bristol Constabulary, Bristol Post, Clifton, Bristol, Colen Campbell, Edward Southwell Sr., Emma (novel), English Baroque architecture, Francis Danby, Gloucester and Sharpness Canal, Gloucestershire Archives, Gothic Revival architecture, Grade I listed buildings in Bristol, Historic England, Home Office, Hotwells, James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Jan Kip, Jane Austen, John Evelyn, John Vanbrugh, John Wesley, Kingsweston (ward), Lawrence Weston, Bristol, Listed building, Lunette, Machicolation, Northanger Abbey, Parterre, Philip John Miles, Philip Napier Miles, Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, River Avon, Bristol, Robert Atkyns (topographer), Robert Mylne (architect), Robert Southey, Robert Southwell (diplomat), Romanticism, Sea Mills, Bristol, ... Expand index (10 more) »

  2. Country houses in Bristol
  3. English Baroque architecture
  4. Georgian architecture in Bristol
  5. Grade I listed buildings in Bristol
  6. Grade II listed parks and gardens in Bristol
  7. John Vanbrugh buildings

Avon Gorge

The Avon Gorge is a 1.5-mile (2.5-kilometre) long gorge on the River Avon in Bristol, England.

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Avonmouth

Avonmouth is a port and outer suburb of Bristol, England, on the north bank of the mouth of the River Avon and the eastern shore of the Severn Estuary.

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Banqueting house

In English architecture, mainly from the Tudor period onwards, a banqueting house is a separate pavilion-like building reached through the gardens from the main residence, whose use is purely for entertaining, especially eating.

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Bath stone

Bath Stone is an oolitic limestone comprising granular fragments of calcium carbonate originally obtained from the Middle Jurassic aged Great Oolite Group of the Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines under Combe Down, Somerset, England.

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Bath, Somerset

Bath (RP) is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, in England, known for and named after its Roman-built baths.

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Belvedere (structure)

A belvedere or belvidere (from Italian for "beautiful view") is an architectural structure sited to take advantage of a fine or scenic view.

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Bewys Cross

Bewys Cross (or Bewy's Cross) is a monument consisting of the steps, plinth and truncated shaft said to be of an ancient cross of uncertain age which used to stand on the ancient seabank or seawall of the River Severn in that area of Shirehampton in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, now known as Avonmouth.

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Blaise Castle Estate

Blaise Castle is a folly built in 1766 near Henbury in Bristol, England. Kings Weston House and Blaise Castle Estate are country houses in Bristol and Georgian architecture in Bristol.

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Blenheim Palace

Blenheim Palace is a country house in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. Kings Weston House and Blenheim Palace are English Baroque architecture, gardens by Capability Brown, grade I listed houses and John Vanbrugh buildings.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region.

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Bristol Archives

Bristol Archives (formerly Bristol Record Office) was established in 1924.

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Bristol City Council

Bristol City Council is the local authority for the city of Bristol, in South West England.

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Bristol Constabulary

Bristol Constabulary, also called Bristol City Police, was a police force responsible for policing the city of Bristol in south-west England from its foundation in 1835 until 1974, when it was amalgamated under the Local Government Act 1972 with Somerset and Bath Constabulary and parts of the Gloucestershire Constabulary to form the Avon and Somerset Constabulary.

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Bristol Post

The Bristol Post is a city/regional five-day-a-week (formerly appearing six days per week) newspaper covering news in the city of Bristol, including stories from the whole of Greater Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

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Clifton, Bristol

Clifton is both a suburb of Bristol, England, and the name of one of the city's thirty-five council wards.

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Colen Campbell

Colen Campbell (15 June 1676 – 13 September 1729) was a pioneering Scottish architect and architectural writer who played an important part in the development of the Georgian style.

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Edward Southwell Sr.

Edward Southwell Sr. (4 September 1671 – 4 December 1730) was an Anglo-Irish lawyer and politician.

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Emma (novel)

Emma is a novel written by English author Jane Austen.

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English Baroque architecture

English Baroque is a term used to refer to modes of English architecture that paralleled Baroque architecture in continental Europe between the Great Fire of London (1666) and roughly 1720, when the flamboyant and dramatic qualities of Baroque art were abandoned in favour of the more chaste, rule-based Neo-classical forms espoused by the proponents of Palladianism.

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Francis Danby

Francis Danby (16 November 1793 – 9 February 1861) was an Irish painter of the Romantic era.

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Gloucester and Sharpness Canal

The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal (also known as the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal) is a ship canal in the west of England, between Gloucester and Sharpness, completed in 1827.

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Gloucestershire Archives

Gloucestershire Archives holds the archives for the county of Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England.

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Grade I listed buildings in Bristol

There are 100 Grade I listed buildings in Bristol, England according to Bristol City Council.

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Historic England

Historic England (officially the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

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Home Office

The Home Office (HO), also known (especially in official papers and when referred to in Parliament) as the Home Department, is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Hotwells

Hotwells is a district of the English port city of Bristol.

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James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde

James FitzJames Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, (1665–1745) was an Irish statesman and soldier.

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Jan Kip

Johannes "Jan" Kip (1652/53 in Amsterdam – 1722 in Westminster) was a Dutch draftsman, engraver and print dealer.

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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John Evelyn

John Evelyn (31 October 162027 February 1706) was an English writer, landowner, gardener, courtier and minor government official, who is now best known as a diarist.

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John Vanbrugh

Sir John Vanbrugh (24 January 1664 (baptised) – 26 March 1726) was an English architect, dramatist and herald, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard.

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John Wesley

John Wesley (2 March 1791) was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism.

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Kingsweston (ward)

Kingsweston was a ward of the city of Bristol.

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Lawrence Weston, Bristol

Lawrence Weston is a post-war housing estate in northwest Bristol, England, between Henbury and Shirehampton.

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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Lunette

A lunette (French lunette, 'little moon') is a half-moon–shaped architectural space, variously filled with sculpture, painted, glazed, filled with recessed masonry, or void.

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Machicolation

A machicolation (mâchicoulis) is a floor opening between the supporting corbels of a battlement, through which stones or other material, such as boiling water, hot sand, quicklime or boiling cooking oil, could be dropped on attackers at the base of a defensive wall.

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Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic novels written by the English author Jane Austen.

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Parterre

A parterre is a part of a formal garden constructed on a level substrate, consisting of symmetrical patterns, made up by plant beds, plats, low hedges or coloured gravels, which are separated and connected by paths.

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Philip John Miles

Philip John Miles (1773–1845) was an English landowner, slave owner, merchant, shipowner, banker and politician from Bristol.

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Philip Napier Miles

Philip Napier Miles JP DLitt h.c. (Bristol) (21 January 1865 – 19 July 1935) was a prominent and wealthy citizen of Bristol, UK, who left his mark on the city, especially on what are now its western suburbs, through his musical and organisational abilities and through good works of various kinds.

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Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England

The Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England provides a listing and classification system for historic parks and gardens similar to that used for listed buildings.

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River Avon, Bristol

The River Avon is a river in the southwest of England.

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Robert Atkyns (topographer)

Sir Robert Atkyns, (1647 – 29 November 1711) was a topographer, antiquary and Member of Parliament.

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Robert Mylne (architect)

Robert Mylne (4 January 1733 – 5 May 1811) was a Scottish architect and civil engineer, particularly remembered for his design for Blackfriars Bridge in London.

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Robert Southey

Robert Southey (or; 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death.

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Robert Southwell (diplomat)

Sir Robert Southwell FRS (31 December 1635 – 11 September 1702) was an Anglo-Irish politician and diplomat.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

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Sea Mills, Bristol

Sea Mills is a suburb of Bristol, England, north-west of the city centre, between the former villages of Shirehampton, Westbury-on-Trym and Stoke Bishop, by the mouth of the River Trym where it joins the River Avon.

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Shirehampton

Shirehampton is a district of Bristol in England, near Avonmouth, at the northwestern edge of the city.

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South Gloucestershire Council

South Gloucestershire Council is the local authority of South Gloucestershire, a local government district in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, England, covering an area to the north of the city of Bristol.

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Thomas Hopper (architect)

Thomas Hopper (1776–1856) was an English architect of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, much favoured by King George IV, and particularly notable for his work on country houses across southern England, with occasional forays further afield, into Wales and Ireland (especially Ulster).

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Thomas Wright (astronomer)

Thomas Wright (22 September 171125 February 1786) was an English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect and garden designer.

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Tudor period

In England and Wales, the Tudor period occurred between 1485 and 1603, including the Elizabethan era during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603).

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University of Bristol

The University of Bristol is a red brick Russell Group research university in Bristol, England.

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Vanbrugh Castle

Vanbrugh Castle is a house designed and built by John Vanbrugh around 1719 for his own family. Kings Weston House and Vanbrugh Castle are John Vanbrugh buildings.

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Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor (30 January 177517 September 1864) was an English writer, poet, and activist.

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Westbury-on-Trym

Westbury on Trym is a suburb and council ward in the north of the City of Bristol, near the suburbs of Stoke Bishop, Westbury Park, Henleaze, Southmead and Henbury, in the southwest of England.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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See also

Country houses in Bristol

English Baroque architecture

Georgian architecture in Bristol

Grade I listed buildings in Bristol

Grade II listed parks and gardens in Bristol

John Vanbrugh buildings

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_Weston_House

Also known as King's Weston House, Kings Weston Action Group, Kingsweston House.

, Shirehampton, South Gloucestershire Council, Thomas Hopper (architect), Thomas Wright (astronomer), Tudor period, University of Bristol, Vanbrugh Castle, Walter Savage Landor, Westbury-on-Trym, World War I.