Entrance arch & screen, Syon Park - with the Northumberland Lion
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Entrance arch & screen, Syon Park - with the Northumberland Lion
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 6 Jan 2012
This must once have been the grand gateway to Syon Park, seat of the Dukes of Northumberland. Despite all that has been done since the 1970's to put the Park on a commercial footing, this entrance - seldom used - has a neglected air about it. My ancient copy of Pevsner for the old county of Middlesex attributes the design to Robert Adam. Pevsner also mentions that Horace Walpole did not approve - but then he wouldn't; the house he was building at Strawberry Hill was inspired by the Gothic, not the classical. For a closer view of the lion, see Image
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Image Location
Latitude
51.479989
Longitude
-0.318859