Title

The Orangery, Wrest Park House and Gardens, Silsoe, Bedfordshire

Caption

The Orangery, Wrest Park House and Gardens, Silsoe, Bedfordshire, c2000s(?). Interior view of the orangery designed by Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, showing a chimneypiece from the old house, sculpture and tiled floor. Exotic fruit and plants were protected from the British winter in the orangery. Wrest Park was built in 1834-1839, inspired by 18th-century French chateaux, and is set in over 90 acres of gardens.

Date

2000

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM19B06_019

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (1,5Mb) / 15,7in x 12,4in / 4700 x 3720 (300dpi)

Keywords

park building buildings England interior indoors architecture gardens arts country sunlight sun pattern science statue sculpture art solar system astronomy British English color colour shadow windows tiles location century floor Britain inside bedfordshire 21st century TILED orangery Patterned 19th century nineteenth century English Heritage 2000s Silsoe TGN Wrest Park photograph chimneypiece Unknown Thomas Thomas de Grey Thomas de Grey 2nd Earl de Grey de Grey Earl de Grey 2nd Earl de Grey Thomas de Grey 2nd Earl de Grey photograph