The gardens, The Deepdene
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The gardens, The Deepdene
Image: © Ian Capper Taken: 11 Sep 2016
Lion statue at the centre of the newly restored parterre garden at The Deepdene. The statue, made of Coade stone (an artificial stone originally popular in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries) and nicknamed Coady the Lion, is an exact replica of a pair that for many year stood in front of Thomas Hope's Deepdene House before one of them was briefly being placed on a plinth here in the gardens. Its image is the logo of the Deepdene Trail. Beyond is the Embattled Tower, a feature added to the gardens by Thomas Hope in 1825 by the entrance to a series of caves that once housed Charles Howard's laboratory.
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