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Ickworth, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP29 5RL

Snow and frost covered countryside looking towards Katherine's Wood near to Horringer, Suffolk.

The shadow of the Earl-Bishop's obelisk points towards the dip in the field that marks the start of a stream flowing north to the River Linnet. For the obelisk, and details of the Earl-Bishop, see Image

The monument to the 4th Earl of Bristol silhouetted in the low winter sun on the Ickworth Estate, Suffolk.

Obelisk commemorates the 4th Earl of Bristol Frederick Augustus Hervey. Ickworth Park, Horringer, Suffolk. For close up of inscription see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/663152; for more information on the Earl see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquess_of_Bristol.

Close up view of text on obelisk. A few letters are getting a little hard to read.

Inscription on obelisk for the 4th Earl of Bristol Frederick Augustus Hervey. Ickworth park Horringer Suffolk. For whole view of the obelisk see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/663145 and for info on the earl see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquess_of_Bristol

Frederick Augustus Hervey (1730-1803), 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry, was one of the more colourful characters in a family not short of them: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Hervey,_4th_Earl_of_Bristol. He was responsible for the current grand scale of Ickworth House, the Rotunda being his particular project (and the only part completed by his death) but spent most of his time away from this country, travelling in Italy as an art collector. (The numerous Hotel Bristols in Europe are said to take their name from his patronage.) Almost certainly a deist, he did not take his church duties very seriously, but his absence of strong religious belief did at least lead to a tolerance of different religions and in particular of Catholicism that is rare in British life at the time (particularly in the Anglo-Irish ascendancy, of which he formed a part by virtue of his office). His relations with his wife and children were poor, a leitmotiv of the Hervey family for generations. It is fair to say, then, that the laudatory Latin inscription on this monument gives only one perspective on him. For a close-up of the inscription, see Image This is the west side of the monument: a longer inscription is given on the east side and can be seen at Image

For details of the Earl-Bishop and a view of this inscription in its context, see Image A longer inscription in English is given on the east side and can be seen at Image

Over one hundred feet tall, the Rotunda of Ickworth House dominates the surrounding parkland.